2020-01-07 10:13:26

by Ganapathi Bhat

Subject: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: update for mwifiex driver maintainers

Rakesh Parmar, Sharvari Harisangam & Sachin Shelke have started
to take a more active role in mwifiex driver maintainership.
This change is to add them to the list of MAINTAINERS.

Signed-off-by: Rakesh Parmar <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Sharvari Harisangam <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Sachin Shelke <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Ganapathi Bhat <[email protected]>
---
MAINTAINERS | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index d095198..d371843 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -9955,8 +9955,10 @@ F: drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta.*

MARVELL MWIFIEX WIRELESS DRIVER
M: Amitkumar Karwar <[email protected]>
-M: Nishant Sarmukadam <[email protected]>
+M: Rakesh Parmar <[email protected]>
M: Ganapathi Bhat <[email protected]>
+M: Sharvari Harisangam <[email protected]>
+M: Sachin Shelke <[email protected]>
M: Xinming Hu <[email protected]>
L: [email protected]
S: Maintained
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1.9.1

2020-01-13 10:16:21

by Kalle Valo

Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: update for mwifiex driver maintainers

Ganapathi Bhat <[email protected]> writes:

> Rakesh Parmar, Sharvari Harisangam & Sachin Shelke have started
> to take a more active role in mwifiex driver maintainership.
> This change is to add them to the list of MAINTAINERS.
>
> Signed-off-by: Rakesh Parmar <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Sharvari Harisangam <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Sachin Shelke <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Ganapathi Bhat <[email protected]>
> ---
> MAINTAINERS | 4 +++-
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index d095198..d371843 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -9955,8 +9955,10 @@ F: drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta.*
>
> MARVELL MWIFIEX WIRELESS DRIVER
> M: Amitkumar Karwar <[email protected]>
> -M: Nishant Sarmukadam <[email protected]>

What about Nishant, you don't mention anything about him.

> +M: Rakesh Parmar <[email protected]>
> M: Ganapathi Bhat <[email protected]>
> +M: Sharvari Harisangam <[email protected]>
> +M: Sachin Shelke <[email protected]>
> M: Xinming Hu <[email protected]>

I think there are too many maintainers now. There should be just one or
two maintainers per driver, not six. Maintainer is a different role from
a person actively working on the driver.

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https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches

2020-01-13 10:20:53

by Ganapathi Bhat

Subject: RE: [EXT] Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: update for mwifiex driver maintainers

Hi Kalle,

> > MARVELL MWIFIEX WIRELESS DRIVER
> > M: Amitkumar Karwar <[email protected]>
> > -M: Nishant Sarmukadam <[email protected]>
>
> What about Nishant, you don't mention anything about him.

OK, I will remove it and update the change.
>
> > +M: Rakesh Parmar <[email protected]>
> > M: Ganapathi Bhat <[email protected]>
> > +M: Sharvari Harisangam <[email protected]>
> > +M: Sachin Shelke <[email protected]>
> > M: Xinming Hu <[email protected]>
>
> I think there are too many maintainers now. There should be just one or two
> maintainers per driver, not six. Maintainer is a different role from a person
> actively working on the driver.

OK, sure.

Regards,
Ganapathi