Re: [PATCH RESEND v3 09/10] MAINTAINERS: Add myself as the DW PCIe core reviewer

From: Serge Semin <fancer.lancer@gmail.com>
To: Manivannan Sadhasivam <manivannan.sadhasivam@linaro.org>
Cc: Serge Semin <Sergey.Semin@baikalelectronics.ru>,
	Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>,
	Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com>,
	Cai Huoqing <cai.huoqing@linux.dev>,
	Jingoo Han <jingoohan1@gmail.com>,
	Gustavo Pimentel <gustavo.pimentel@synopsys.com>,
	Vinod Koul <vkoul@kernel.org>,
	Yoshihiro Shimoda <yoshihiro.shimoda.uh@renesas.com>,
	Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>,
	Alexey Malahov <Alexey.Malahov@baikalelectronics.ru>,
	Pavel Parkhomenko <Pavel.Parkhomenko@baikalelectronics.ru>,
	linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, dmaengine@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND v3 09/10] MAINTAINERS: Add myself as the DW PCIe core reviewer
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2023 20:16:15 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230411171615.gezxhjcndpkrts2b@mobilestation> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230411112416.GK5333@thinkpad>

On Tue, Apr 11, 2023 at 04:54:16PM +0530, Manivannan Sadhasivam wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 11, 2023 at 06:39:27AM +0300, Serge Semin wrote:
> > No actions have been spotted from the driver maintainers for almost two
> > years now. It significantly delays the review process of the relatively
> > often incoming updates. Since that IP-core has been used in several our
> > SoCs adding myself to the list of reviewers will help in the evolving the
> > driver faster and in catching any potential problem as early as possible.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Serge Semin <Sergey.Semin@baikalelectronics.ru>
> 
> If the Maintainers were not responding for these long years, then it implies
> that they are not maintaining at all. So I'm inclined to remove their entries
> too but I'll defer that decision to Lorenzo.

To be completely honest @Jingoo responded to a few patches with minor
comments lately meanwhile @Gustavo has been completely silent for
about two years now.

> 
> For this patch,
> 
> Acked-by: Manivannan Sadhasivam <manivannan.sadhasivam@linaro.org>

Thanks.

-Serge(y)

> 
> - Mani
> 
> > ---
> >  MAINTAINERS | 1 +
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> > index 489fd4b4c7ae..51adcafa0f0c 100644
> > --- a/MAINTAINERS
> > +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> > @@ -16061,6 +16061,7 @@ F:	drivers/pci/controller/dwc/pci-exynos.c
> >  PCI DRIVER FOR SYNOPSYS DESIGNWARE
> >  M:	Jingoo Han <jingoohan1@gmail.com>
> >  M:	Gustavo Pimentel <gustavo.pimentel@synopsys.com>
> > +R:	Serge Semin <fancer.lancer@gmail.com>
> >  L:	linux-pci@vger.kernel.org
> >  S:	Maintained
> >  F:	Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pci/snps,dw-pcie*.yaml
> > -- 
> > 2.40.0
> > 
> > 
> 
> -- 
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