Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932828AbcJRPzh (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Oct 2016 11:55:37 -0400 Received: from eusmtp01.atmel.com ([212.144.249.242]:11026 "EHLO eusmtp01.atmel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S935250AbcJRPz3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Oct 2016 11:55:29 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] MAINTAINERS: add a maintainer for the SPI NOR subsystem To: Richard Weinberger , Marek Vasut References: <0a3eaa21fb0f38743308c9cc9fc5d2373f4877de.1476802288.git.cyrille.pitchen@atmel.com> CC: Brian Norris , "linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org" , , Boris Brezillon , LKML From: Cyrille Pitchen Message-ID: <3d45f698-08e9-e672-d405-1ab9bfec1222@atmel.com> Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2016 17:55:23 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Originating-IP: [10.145.133.18] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1593 Lines: 37 Le 18/10/2016 à 17:30, Richard Weinberger a écrit : > 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. > I totally agree with you so if Marek and you volunteer as well, your help will be precious!