[PATCH v3] wifi: cleanup brcm80211 drivers maintainer entry

[PATCH v3] wifi: cleanup brcm80211 drivers maintainer entry

[Arend van Spriel]

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There has been some discussion about what is expected from
a maintainer and so a cleanup seems to be in order. A dedicated
mailing list has been created to discuss brcm80211 specific
development issues. Keeping the status as Supported although
help in maintaining this driver is welcomed.

Cc: brcm80211@lists.linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com>
---
changelog:
  V2: let's not orphan the drivers for now
  V3: switch to my Broadcom email

The discussion around the SAE password patch [1] was a lively one
and at some point I wanted to drop the ball and be done with it.
However, when the emotions subsided and people offered to help out
with maintaining the brcm80211 drivers I decided to stay on for the
job. The discussion had some valid points specifically on my actual
involvement. Hopefully I can improve in that aspect. I sharpened my
email filters to keep better eye on brcm80211 related queryies,
patches and what not.

Another step taken is the creation of a specific mailing list for
brcm80211 development topics:

<brcm80211@lists.linux.dev>

The driver wireless wiki can also use a cleanup. Probably will add
a list of people who volunteer to perform regression testing with
the chipsets they have available.

Hope we can move on in a relatively fresh new year and leave the
frustration behind us.

This patch was based on the wireless tree, but it probably applies
to wireless-next as well. I am fine either way.

Regards,
Arend

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-wireless/20231107-brcmfmac-wpa3-v1-1-4c7db8636680@marcan.st/
---
 MAINTAINERS | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index d8ca0e10c8d1..25d530ab90d7 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -4169,14 +4169,14 @@ F:	drivers/firmware/broadcom/tee_bnxt_fw.c
 F:	drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/
 F:	include/linux/firmware/broadcom/tee_bnxt_fw.h
 
-BROADCOM BRCM80211 IEEE802.11n WIRELESS DRIVER
-M:	Arend van Spriel <aspriel@gmail.com>
-M:	Franky Lin <franky.lin@broadcom.com>
-M:	Hante Meuleman <hante.meuleman@broadcom.com>
+BROADCOM BRCM80211 IEEE802.11 WIRELESS DRIVERS
+M:	Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com>
 L:	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
+L:	brcm80211@lists.linux.dev
 L:	brcm80211-dev-list.pdl@broadcom.com
 S:	Supported
 F:	drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/
+F:	include/linux/platform_data/brcmfmac.h
 
 BROADCOM BRCMSTB GPIO DRIVER
 M:	Doug Berger <opendmb@gmail.com>

base-commit: 1b023d475ae928f3036cefee9ea0a499af1d8900
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2.32.0


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Re: [PATCH v3] wifi: cleanup brcm80211 drivers maintainer entry

[Kalle Valo]

Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com> writes:

> There has been some discussion about what is expected from
> a maintainer and so a cleanup seems to be in order. A dedicated
> mailing list has been created to discuss brcm80211 specific
> development issues. Keeping the status as Supported although
> help in maintaining this driver is welcomed.
>
> Cc: brcm80211@lists.linux.dev
> Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com>
> ---
> changelog:
>   V2: let's not orphan the drivers for now
>   V3: switch to my Broadcom email
>
> The discussion around the SAE password patch [1] was a lively one
> and at some point I wanted to drop the ball and be done with it.
> However, when the emotions subsided and people offered to help out
> with maintaining the brcm80211 drivers I decided to stay on for the
> job. The discussion had some valid points specifically on my actual
> involvement. Hopefully I can improve in that aspect. I sharpened my
> email filters to keep better eye on brcm80211 related queryies,
> patches and what not.
>
> Another step taken is the creation of a specific mailing list for
> brcm80211 development topics:
>
> <brcm80211@lists.linux.dev>

Arend, thanks for creating the list. Apparently to subscribe to the list
send email to:

brcm80211+subscribe@lists.linux.dev

Though I didn't get any reply yet, hopefully it's just slow.

> This patch was based on the wireless tree, but it probably applies
> to wireless-next as well. I am fine either way.

We usually take patches to MAINTAINERS file to wireless, less conflicts
that way. So I'll queue this to wireless.

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Re: [v3] MAINTAINERS: wifi: brcm80211: cleanup entry

[Kalle Valo]

Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com> wrote:

> There has been some discussion about what is expected from
> a maintainer and so a cleanup seems to be in order. A dedicated
> mailing list has been created to discuss brcm80211 specific
> development issues. Keeping the status as Supported although
> help in maintaining this driver is welcomed.
> 
> Cc: brcm80211@lists.linux.dev
> Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com>

Patch applied to wireless.git, thanks.

e4ad71e2367f MAINTAINERS: wifi: brcm80211: cleanup entry

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