Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934301AbcJRTcg (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Oct 2016 15:32:36 -0400 Received: from mail-out.m-online.net ([212.18.0.9]:58163 "EHLO mail-out.m-online.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933951AbcJRTce (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Oct 2016 15:32:34 -0400 X-Auth-Info: XZ9qyxQz2kRMYNiFnd+RvpAPv4K86pozvDUJx2tb7bg= Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] MAINTAINERS: add a maintainer for the SPI NOR subsystem To: Richard Weinberger , Cyrille Pitchen References: <0a3eaa21fb0f38743308c9cc9fc5d2373f4877de.1476802288.git.cyrille.pitchen@atmel.com> <3d45f698-08e9-e672-d405-1ab9bfec1222@atmel.com> Cc: Brian Norris , "linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org" , nicolas.ferre@atmel.com, Boris Brezillon , LKML From: Marek Vasut Message-ID: <326eced2-6766-e90a-7eaa-42ccdb5016a9@denx.de> Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2016 18:37:40 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Icedove/45.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2193 Lines: 51 On 10/18/2016 06:15 PM, Richard Weinberger wrote: > On 18.10.2016 17:55, Cyrille Pitchen wrote: >> 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! > > Well, my SPI-NOR fu is not strong. And UBI/UBIFS keeps me busy. > But if Brian likes the idea of having a MTD maintainer team I'll offer my help. After talking to Wolfram Sang a bit about the maintainer overload at ELCE, I think the least I can do here is help reviewing patches. The CQSPI upstreaming experience was real crap, it took a long time, so we should certainly do something about it. -- Best regards, Marek Vasut