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Subject: Re: EDAC driver for DMC520
To:     Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc:     Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>,
        Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>,
        Yuqing Shen <yuqing.shen@broadcom.com>,
        Lei Wang <lewan@microsoft.com>,
        James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>,
        Robert Richter <rrichter@marvell.com>,
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From:   Scott Branden <scott.branden@broadcom.com>
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Date:   Tue, 7 Jan 2020 10:55:27 -0800
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Lei/Shiping,

On 2020-01-07 10:49 a.m., Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 07, 2020 at 09:57:26AM -0800, Scott Branden wrote:
>> Hello EDAC Maintainers,
>>
>> Could somebody have a look at the DMC520 patch series that has been waiting
>> for a response since November:
>> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/11248785/
> Well, the dt bindings stuff is still being discussed:
>
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/11248783/
>
> Also, looking at this again, the patch authorship looks really fishy:
>
> Sender is
>
> From: Shiping Ji <shiping.linux@gmail.com>
>
> however, he doesn't have his SOB in there and previous iterations were
> done with Lei Wang whose SOB *is* there so I dunno what's going on.
>
> *Especially* if Lei Wang is being added as a maintainer of that driver
> by the second patch but he's not sending this driver himself. If this
> driver is going to be orphaned the moment it lands upstream, I'm not
> going to take it.
Shiping/Lei could you please provide appropriate signed-off-by?
Also, if you do not have an appropriate maintainer for the driver
we have Yuqing Shen who can be maintainer of this driver.
>
> So at least those two things need to be fixed/clarified first.
>
> HTH.
>