Re: [PATCH 0/2] Regarding NAND core and drivers maintenance

[Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de>]

Hi Brian,

> On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 07:07:09AM +0000, Pekon Gupta wrote:
> > > My proposal (copy-pasted from the media subsystem) is to define
> > > sub-maintainers, one for each NAND driver, in addition to the top-level
> > > NAND subsystem maintainer.
> > > 
> > > When a patch comes for a given driver, the _ideal_ situation would be
> > > for the sub-maintainer to Ack-it first.
> > 
> > Specifically, we need someone to keep a watch on m25p80 (apart from
> > David and Brian). This is because I see lot of patches coming in but not
> > on generic framework approach. Serial Flash driver might be next big
> > component of MTD sub-system in coming times.
> 
> Hmm, I don't know if we really need a separate SPI NOR maintainer, and I
> don't know if we have anyone with enough experience with SPI NOR to
> qualify anyway. I know Marek Vasut has been a good reviewer, but I'd be
> surprised if he really wanted to take official responsibility. And
> anyway, implementors and reviewers don't have to be official
> maintainers, so this shouldn't stop any pending work on the subject.

I'm honestly pleased by you saying this ;-) I don't mind continue reviewing, but 
if things were to blow out of proportion, I don't mind helping either.

> Also, I have some HW that can do quad-SPI, but only in limited
> circumstances. Right now, my driver is just faking being a generic SPI
> driver when it really scrapes the commands and performs accelerated
> transactions on ones it recognizes... so it shares some similarities
> with what Huang is trying to do. I hope to contribute more to the
> generic framework of SPI NOR in the future (as time allows, of course).
> 
> So while I might be officially responsible for driver/mtd/nand/, I will
> be involved in the rest of MTD and will likely continue to queue up
> patches anyway.

Thanks for that !

Best regards,
Marek Vasut