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Subject: Re: EDAC driver for DMC520
To:     Scott Branden <scott.branden@broadcom.com>,
        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:   Shiping Ji <shiping.linux@gmail.com>
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Date:   Tue, 7 Jan 2020 11:01:10 -0800
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On 1/7/2020 10:55 AM, Scott Branden wrote:
> 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.

Yes, signed-off-by is still Lei Wang, who is still the official maintainer of the driver.

Lei is currently in sick leave so I'm trying to complete the patches on her behalf. Please kindly let me know how to add my SOB there.

Thanks!

>> So at least those two things need to be fixed/clarified first.
>>
>> HTH.
>>
> 

-- 
Best regards,
Shiping Ji