From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: florian@openwrt.org (Florian Fainelli) Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2011 07:15:52 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] ep93xx-eth: convert to phylib In-Reply-To: <20110605.140657.1039864716002412071.davem@davemloft.net> References: <201106051957.36492.florian@openwrt.org> <201106052029.24742.f.fainelli@gmail.com> <20110605.140657.1039864716002412071.davem@davemloft.net> Message-ID: <201106060715.52332.florian@openwrt.org> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Sunday 05 June 2011 23:06:57 David Miller wrote: > From: Florian Fainelli > Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2011 20:29:24 +0200 > > > On Sunday 05 June 2011 19:57:36 Florian Fainelli wrote: > >> ep93xx-eth lacked support for monitoring link status changes, with this > >> patch, link changes are now watched and reported correctly. > >> > >> Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli > >> --- > > > > I just stumbled upon: http://www.mail- > > archive.com/netdev at vger.kernel.org/msg62549.html > > which does not seem to have been merged. > > > > I will respin my patch with Herbert's changes > > If people wonder why things don't get merged in situations like > this it's because there is no clear person standing up to act as > a maintainer. No problem here so far. > > Instead there are several different people submitting changes to > this one driver and I haven't got a clue who is authoritative and > who is not. > > So 9 times out of ten I'm not going to merge anything submitted > in this way unless I start to see lots of ACKs from other developers. > > When it gets to the point where multiple people are touching the > driver in all sorts of ways, there needs to be someone to do all of > the merging and making sure the patches get applied in the right order > and handling merge conflicts handled properly. Then they submit them > formally here as a sane single set of patches to the list. > > So who is going to step up and be the ep93xx-eth maintainer? Lennert > is listed in MAINTAINERS, but I see little to no activity from him. Lennert, do you still have time, hardware and will to maintain that driver? > > The last ACK Lennert gave for a patch to this driver was in May 2010, > more than a year ago. -- Florian From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Florian Fainelli Subject: Re: [PATCH] ep93xx-eth: convert to phylib Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2011 07:15:52 +0200 Message-ID: <201106060715.52332.florian@openwrt.org> References: <201106051957.36492.florian@openwrt.org> <201106052029.24742.f.fainelli@gmail.com> <20110605.140657.1039864716002412071.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, hvr@gnu.org, kernel@wantstofly.org, mika.westerberg@iki.fi, hsweeten@visionengravers.com, ryan@bluewatersys.com, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org To: David Miller Return-path: Received: from mail-ww0-f44.google.com ([74.125.82.44]:45600 "EHLO mail-ww0-f44.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755929Ab1FFFP4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Jun 2011 01:15:56 -0400 Received: by wwa36 with SMTP id 36so3401380wwa.1 for ; Sun, 05 Jun 2011 22:15:55 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20110605.140657.1039864716002412071.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Sunday 05 June 2011 23:06:57 David Miller wrote: > From: Florian Fainelli > Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2011 20:29:24 +0200 > > > On Sunday 05 June 2011 19:57:36 Florian Fainelli wrote: > >> ep93xx-eth lacked support for monitoring link status changes, with this > >> patch, link changes are now watched and reported correctly. > >> > >> Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli > >> --- > > > > I just stumbled upon: http://www.mail- > > archive.com/netdev@vger.kernel.org/msg62549.html > > which does not seem to have been merged. > > > > I will respin my patch with Herbert's changes > > If people wonder why things don't get merged in situations like > this it's because there is no clear person standing up to act as > a maintainer. No problem here so far. > > Instead there are several different people submitting changes to > this one driver and I haven't got a clue who is authoritative and > who is not. > > So 9 times out of ten I'm not going to merge anything submitted > in this way unless I start to see lots of ACKs from other developers. > > When it gets to the point where multiple people are touching the > driver in all sorts of ways, there needs to be someone to do all of > the merging and making sure the patches get applied in the right order > and handling merge conflicts handled properly. Then they submit them > formally here as a sane single set of patches to the list. > > So who is going to step up and be the ep93xx-eth maintainer? Lennert > is listed in MAINTAINERS, but I see little to no activity from him. Lennert, do you still have time, hardware and will to maintain that driver? > > The last ACK Lennert gave for a patch to this driver was in May 2010, > more than a year ago. -- Florian