Re: [PATCH net-next v6 0/5] net: stmmac: Add PCI driver support for BCM8958x

[Yanteng Si <si.yanteng@linux.dev>]

在 5/29/25 10:56 AM, Jitendra Vegiraju 写道:
> Hi Yanteng,
>
> On Wed, May 28, 2025 at 6:36 PM Yanteng Si <si.yanteng@linux.dev> wrote:
>> 在 5/28/25 8:04 AM, Abhishek Chauhan (ABC) 写道:
>>>
>>> On 2/7/2025 3:18 PM, Jitendra Vegiraju wrote:
>>>> Hi Abhishek,
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Feb 7, 2025 at 10:21 AM Abhishek Chauhan (ABC) <
>>>> quic_abchauha@quicinc.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 11/5/2024 8:12 AM, Jitendra Vegiraju wrote:
>>>>>> Hi netdev team,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Fri, Oct 18, 2024 at 1:53 PM <jitendra.vegiraju@broadcom.com> wrote:
>>>>>>> From: Jitendra Vegiraju <jitendra.vegiraju@broadcom.com>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> This patchset adds basic PCI ethernet device driver support for Broadcom
>>>>>>> BCM8958x Automotive Ethernet switch SoC devices.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> I would like to seek your guidance on how to take this patch series
>>>>> forward.
>>>>>> Thanks to your feedback and Serge's suggestions, we made some forward
>>>>>> progress on this patch series.
>>>>>> Please make any suggestions to enable us to upstream driver support
>>>>>> for BCM8958x.
>>>>> Jitendra,
>>>>>            Have we resent this patch or got it approved ? I dont see any
>>>>> updates after this patch.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Thank you for inquiring about the status of this patch.
>>>> As stmmac driver is going through a maintainer transition, we wanted to
>>>> wait until a new maintainer is identified.
>>>> We would like to send the updated patch as soon as possible.
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Jitendra
>>> Thanks Jitendra, I am sorry but just a follow up.
>>>
>>> Do we know if stmmac maintainer are identified now ?
>> I'm curious why such a precondition is added？
>>
> It's not a precondition. Let me give some context.
> This patch series adds support for a new Hyper DMA(HDMA) MAC from Synopsis.
> Many of the netdev community members reviewed the patches at that time.
> Being the module maintainer at that time, Serge took the initiative to
> guide us through integrating the new MAC into the stmmac driver.
> We addressed all the review comments and submitted the last patch series.
> Without an official maintainer, we didn't get feedback on the last patch series.
> Because of this, we wanted to wait until a new maintainer is assigned
> to this module.
> As Abhishek expressed in his email, it appears the HDMA MAC is
> becoming more mainstream.
> We are hoping to rebase the patch series and resubmit for review if
> netdev team members show interest.


https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20241018205332.525595-1-jitendra.vegiraju@broadcom.com/

In my opinion, the precondition for waiting for a maintainer is that

the patch set has passed the review. I checked lore and did not find

any R&B tags in the patch set, which means your patch set has not

yet met the merging requirements.

Therefore, I think you can continue to push forward with this patch

set and not let it stagnate. I will take some time to review the previous

versions (which may take a while) and hope to be helpful.

Thanks,

Yanteng

> Thanks,
> Jitendra
>> Thanks,
>> Yanteng