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From: Alexey Charkov <alchark@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2024 09:17:09 +0400
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: ARM: vt8500: add Krzysztof Kozlowski as maintainer
To: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@linaro.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>, Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, 
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On Wed, Jun 12, 2024 at 5:43=E2=80=AFPM Krzysztof Kozlowski
<krzysztof.kozlowski@linaro.org> wrote:
>
> On 12/06/2024 14:57, Alexey Charkov wrote:
> > Hi Arnd, Krzystof,
> >
> > On Wed, Jun 12, 2024 at 3:43=E2=80=AFPM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> w=
rote:
> >>
> >> On Wed, Jun 12, 2024, at 13:16, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> >>> The ARM VIA/WonderMedia VT8500 platform became orphaned in
> >>> commit 8f1b7ba55c61 ("MAINTAINERS: ARM/VT8500, remove defunct e-mail"=
)
> >>> and clearly it is on the way out of the kernel.  However few folks se=
nd
> >>> patches to it and it is nice to actually take them, till the platform=
 is
> >>> in the kernel.
> >>>
> >>> I do not plan to actively support/maintain ARM VT8500 but I can take =
odd
> >>> fixes now and then.
> >>>
> >>> Extend the maintainer entry to cover also VT8500 DTS.
> >>>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@linaro.org>
> >>
> >> Cc: Alexey Charkov
> >>
> >> Thanks for stepping up. A few years ago, Alexey also had
> >> some interest in this platform and knew some other remaining
> >> users.
> >
> > Indeed, I'm still interested in getting it up and running, and even
> > got my good old WM8950-based APC Rock board out of storage for it
> > recently. I also have a WM8880-based laptop and another WM8850-based
> > one at hand, but need to bring them up to speed. Should also have a
> > number of older WM8750, WM8650 and VT8500 (but not WM8505) devices
> > somewhere deeper in storage.
> >
> > I haven't touched the related code in a while, but as the original
> > author of VT8500 and WM8505 support code from over a decade back I'd
> > love to keep it all alive and functional, including reviewing and
> > testing stuff as well as (hopefully) adding extra functionality that's
> > been on my backlog for years. Does that count as support/maintain?
> > Happy to be listed in maintainers and be in the loop if I qualify.
>
> You can take the sole maintainership thus handle patches/pull requests,
> or become added as a co-maintainer.

Co-maintainer sounds great. Shall I submit a separate patch to add
myself next to your name?

Best regards,
Alexey