Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S936189AbcJRPax (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Oct 2016 11:30:53 -0400 Received: from mail-oi0-f68.google.com ([209.85.218.68]:32807 "EHLO mail-oi0-f68.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S936072AbcJRPah (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Oct 2016 11:30:37 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <0a3eaa21fb0f38743308c9cc9fc5d2373f4877de.1476802288.git.cyrille.pitchen@atmel.com> From: Richard Weinberger Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2016 17:30:34 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] MAINTAINERS: add a maintainer for the SPI NOR subsystem To: Marek Vasut Cc: Cyrille Pitchen , Brian Norris , "linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org" , nicolas.ferre@atmel.com, Boris Brezillon , LKML Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1424 Lines: 36 On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 5:17 PM, Marek Vasut wrote: > On 10/18/2016 04:58 PM, Cyrille Pitchen wrote: >> I would like to volunteer as a maintainer for the SPI NOR part of the MTD >> subsystem. >> >> Over the last months, a significant number of SPI NOR related patches have >> been submitted, some of them have been reviewed, but very few have finally >> been merged. Hence, the number of pending SPI NOR related patches continues >> to increase over the time. >> >> Through my work on SPI NOR memories from many manufacturers over the last >> two years, I've gained a solid understanding of this technology. >> I've already helped by reviewing patches from other contributors on the >> mailing list, and would like to help getting those patches integrated by >> volunteering as a maintainer for this specific area. >> >> Boris Brezillon has already stepped up as a maintainer for the NAND >> sub-subsystem in MTD, and the SPI NOR sub-subsystem could be handled in >> the same way: I would be reviewing patches touching this area, collecting >> them and sending pull requests to Brian Norris. I'd suggest you send pull requests directly to Linus. Same for NAND. >> Signed-off-by: Cyrille Pitchen > > Let me know if you need co-maintainer. +1 While we are here, what about forming a MTD maintainer team? This concept works very well for other subsystems. -- Thanks, //richard