Re: Adding more mach-omap2 maintainers

[Kevin Hilman <khilman@baylibre.com>]

Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com> writes:

> Hi all,
>
> I want to add some more maintainers for omaps to ensure continued support.
> There are many generations of omaps, and having multiple maintainers allows
> us to split the work. The earlier split by category to things like PM,
> clocks, and SoC core interconnect hwmod/ti-sysc no longer exactly current
> as the work has been completed, and people have moved on.
>
> TI is naturally mainly interested in their active parts am3, am4 and dra7.
> Additionally, the community folks are interested in maintaining also some
> of the older devices, mostly based on omap3 and omap4.
>
> So I'd like to add two maintainers from TI, and two community maintainers.
> This allows both the TI and community maintainers take turns with the
> merge windows and chasing down regressions.
>
> I've started working full time at Intel and will be stepping back. I'll
> be still around here and there too as a hobbyist maintainer tinkering
> with some mobile devices I use :)

Thank you Tony for maintaining these SoCs so faithfully for such a long
period of time.  You've done an incredible job for so many years to keep
these devices well maintained upstream.

> Over the past week, I've privately asked some folks who I trust to help.
> I started with people who have been active recently related to omap
> touching SoC devices.
>
> From folks working on TI SoCs, I'd like to have Andrew Davis and
> Roger Quardos to join. They both have a long history on working on omap
> based devices, and are actively working on the SoC devices that are used
> both for omaps and the new K3 SoCs. Kevin Hilman might be also able to
> help a bit on some related Linux generic issues.

I'm interested and available to help maintain these going forward.

Kevin