Re: MaxLinear, please maintain your drivers was Re: [PATCH] leds: lgm: fix gpiolib dependency

From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>
To: Rahul Tanwar <rtanwar@maxlinear.com>
Cc: Cheol Yong Kim <ckim@maxlinear.com>,
	Qiming Wu <qwu@maxlinear.com>, Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>,
	Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>,
	Dan Murphy <dmurphy@ti.com>,
	"linux-leds@vger.kernel.org" <linux-leds@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	John Crispin <john@phrozen.org>,
	Hauke Mehrtens <hmehrtens@maxlinear.com>,
	Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>,
	"the arch/x86 maintainers" <x86@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: MaxLinear, please maintain your drivers was Re: [PATCH] leds: lgm: fix gpiolib dependency
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2021 11:00:58 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAK8P3a2t-C5_JOcTUcYq1UCiDUDzMibvT0ToHut6hEJCtoj-YA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 6:48 AM Rahul Tanwar <rtanwar@maxlinear.com> wrote:
> Hi Arnd, Pavel,
>
> Sorry for the hiccup due to missing email address in the email chain during the ownership transition.
>
> Henceforth, I will be the maintainer for all kernel drivers/code related to “formerly Intel’s now MaxLinear’s” Lightning Mountain SoC.
>
> Please send any Lightning Mountain SoC related issues email to Rahul Tanwar (rtanwar@maxlinear.com) and I will ensure that I address the issues in a timely manner.

Thank you for the reply and for stepping up as maintainer.

I tend to merge updates to the MAINTAINERS file as bugfixes the file contains
the correct addresses at all times. If you sent an update for this to
soc@kernel.org,
I'll get that merged.

Since I think this is an x86 platform, you can alternatively send the same patch
to the x86 maintainers.

Are you also planning to maintain or add drivers for some of the older SoC
generations from Ti/Lantiq/Infineon/Intel that are now owned by MaxLinear?
It would be good to be explicit about which ones of these you are working
with. From what I can tell, the arch/mips/lantiq/ platform is only for fairly
old designs (xrx200 and older), while support for the slightly later mips
and x86 based chips was submitted a few years ago but never merged.

> I will wait for more details on your fix request for LGM LED driver. Thanks.

From my side, only an Ack on the original bugfix I sent [1] is needed, but
Pavel had other concerns about the driver. I expect he will follow up on those
with you.

         Arnd

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210308153052.2353885-1-arnd@kernel.org/