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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] MAINTAINERS: Add new maintainers to Redpine driver
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From:   Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de>
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On 6/9/23 17:10, Jérôme Pouiller wrote:
> Hi Marek,

Hi,

> On Monday 5 June 2023 11:59:41 CEST Marek Vasut wrote:
>> On 6/1/23 12:47, Jérôme Pouiller wrote:
>>> On Saturday 27 May 2023 23:12:16 CEST Marek Vasut wrote:
>>>> On 2/27/23 11:28, Kalle Valo wrote:
>>>>> Ganapathi Kondraju <ganapathi.kondraju@silabs.com> writes:
> [...]
>>>> Has there been any progress on improving this driver maintainership
>>>> since this patch ?
>>>
>>> Hello Marek,
>>>
>>> The situation is still blurry. There is a willing to maintain this driver
>>> (and several people would like I take care of that). However, the effort
>>> to properly support this driver is still unknown (in fact, I have not yet
>>> started to really look at the situation).
>>
>> I have to admit, the aforementioned paragraph is quite disturbing,
>> considering that this patch adds 6 maintainers, is already in V3, and so
>> far it is not even clear to silabs how much effort it would be to
>> maintain driver for their own hardware, worse, silabs didn't even check.
>> What is the point of adding those maintainers then ?
> 
> 
> I think Ganapathi just wanted to give a list of people to keep in Cc in
> case there were some discussions about this driver. The status change was
> probably not what he wanted to do.

Do I understand this correctly that there is no intention to actually 
improve the upstream support from RSI side ?

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