Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] MAINTAINERS: add a maintainer for the SPI NOR subsystem

[Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>]

On Wed, 19 Oct 2016 17:34:49 +0200
Cyrille Pitchen <cyrille.pitchen@atmel.com> wrote:

> I would like to volunteer as a maintainer for the SPI NOR part of the MTD
> subsystem.
> 
> Over the last months, a significant number of SPI NOR related patches have
> been submitted, some of them have been reviewed, but very few have finally
> been merged. Hence, the number of pending SPI NOR related patches continues
> to increase over the time.
> 
> Through my work on SPI NOR memories from many manufacturers over the last
> two years, I've gained a solid understanding of this technology.
> I've already helped by reviewing patches from other contributors on the
> mailing list, and would like to help getting those patches integrated by
> volunteering as a maintainer for this specific area.
> 
> Boris Brezillon has already stepped up as a maintainer for the NAND
> sub-subsystem in MTD, and the SPI NOR sub-subsystem could be handled in
> the same way: I would be reviewing patches touching this area, collecting
> them and sending pull requests to Brian Norris.
> 
> Also both Marek Vasut and Richard Weinberger have volunteered as well as
> maintainers for the SPI NOR subsystem.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Cyrille Pitchen <cyrille.pitchen@atmel.com>
> Acked-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>
> ---
> ChangeLog:
> 
> v1 -> v2:
> - add Marek and Richard as maintainers.
> - add Acked-by from Boris Brezillon.
> 
> 
>  MAINTAINERS | 12 ++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index 757f9c4b388d..7e63b2015072 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -11390,6 +11390,18 @@ W:	http://www.st.com/spear
>  S:	Maintained
>  F:	drivers/clk/spear/
>  
> +SPI NOR SUBSYSTEM
> +M:	Cyrille Pitchen <cyrille.pitchen@atmel.com>
> +M:	Marek Vasut <marek.vasut@gmail.com>
> +M:	Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>

My bad, I think I misunderstood Richard's answer: Richard does not want
to be a spi-nor maintainer, he was just acking Marek's proposal to be a
co-maintainer.

> +L:	linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
> +W:	http://www.linux-mtd.infradead.org/
> +Q:	http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/linux-mtd/list/
> +T:	git git://github.com/spi-nor/linux.git
> +S:	Maintained
> +F:	drivers/mtd/spi-nor/
> +F:	include/linux/mtd/spi-nor.h
> +
>  SPI SUBSYSTEM
>  M:	Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
>  L:	linux-spi@vger.kernel.org