From:   Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>
To:     Ganapathi Kondraju <ganapathi.kondraju@silabs.com>
Cc:     linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
        Amitkumar Karwar <amitkarwar@gmail.com>,
        Amol Hanwate <amol.hanwate@silabs.com>,
        Angus Ainslie <angus@akkea.ca>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
        Jerome Pouiller <Jerome.Pouiller@silabs.com>,
        Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
        Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de>,
        Martin Fuzzey <martin.fuzzey@flowbird.group>,
        Martin Kepplinger <martink@posteo.de>,
        Narasimha Anumolu <narasimha.anumolu@silabs.com>,
        Sebastian Krzyszkowiak <sebastian.krzyszkowiak@puri.sm>,
        Shivanadam Gude <shivanadam.gude@silabs.com>,
        Siva Rebbagondla <siva8118@gmail.com>,
        Srinivas Chappidi <srinivas.chappidi@silabs.com>,
        netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] MAINTAINERS: Add new maintainers to Redpine driver
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Date:   Mon, 27 Feb 2023 12:28:57 +0200
In-Reply-To: <1675433281-6132-1-git-send-email-ganapathi.kondraju@silabs.com>
        (Ganapathi Kondraju's message of "Fri, 3 Feb 2023 19:38:01 +0530")
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Ganapathi Kondraju <ganapathi.kondraju@silabs.com> writes:

> Silicon Labs acquired Redpine Signals recently. It needs to continue
> giving support to the existing REDPINE WIRELESS DRIVER. This patch adds
> new Maintainers for it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ganapathi Kondraju <ganapathi.kondraju@silabs.com>
> ---
> V2:
> - Add proper prefix for patch subject.
> - Reorder the maintainers list alphabetically.
> - Add a new member to the list.
> ---
> V3:
> - Fix sentence formation in the patch subject and description.
> ---
>
>  MAINTAINERS | 8 +++++++-
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index ea941dc..04a08c7 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -17709,8 +17709,14 @@ S:	Maintained
>  F:	drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw89/
>=20=20
>  REDPINE WIRELESS DRIVER
> +M:	Amol Hanwate <amol.hanwate@silabs.com>
> +M:	Ganapathi Kondraju <ganapathi.kondraju@silabs.com>
> +M:	J=C3=A9r=C3=B4me Pouiller <jerome.pouiller@silabs.com>
> +M:	Narasimha Anumolu <narasimha.anumolu@silabs.com>
> +M:	Shivanadam Gude <shivanadam.gude@silabs.com>
> +M:	Srinivas Chappidi <srinivas.chappidi@silabs.com>
>  L:	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
> -S:	Orphan
> +S:	Maintained
>  F:	drivers/net/wireless/rsi/

For me six maintainers is way too much. Just last November I marked this
driver as orphan, I really do not want to add all these people to
MAINTAINERS and never hear from them again.

Ideally I would prefer to have one or two maintainers who would be
actively working with the drivers. And also I would like to see some
proof (read: reviewing patches and providing feedback) that the
maintainers are really parciticiping in upstream before changing the
status.

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https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-wireless/list/

https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatc=
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