Re: [PATCH v3 5/5] MAINTAINERS: Add an entry for i.MX remoteproc driver

[Peng Fan <peng.fan@oss.nxp.com>]

Hi Mathieu,

On Wed, Oct 22, 2025 at 11:41:27AM -0600, Mathieu Poirier wrote:
>On Wed, Oct 15, 2025 at 09:52:59PM +0800, Peng Fan wrote:
>>  
>> +NXP i.MX REMOTEPROC DRIVERS
>> +M:	Peng Fan <peng.fan@nxp.com>
>> +M:	Daniel Baluta <daniel.baluta@nxp.com>
>> +M:	Shengjiu Wang <shengjiu.wang@nxp.com>
>> +L:	linux-remoteproc@vger.kernel.org
>> +L:	imx@lists.linux.dev
>> +S:	Maintained
>> +F:	drivers/remoteproc/imx*
>> +
>
>Here I am suggesting:
>
>M:	Daniel Baluta <daniel.baluta@nxp.com>
>R:	Peng Fan <peng.fan@nxp.com>
>R:	Shengjiu Wang <shengjiu.wang@nxp.com>

Thanks for your feedback.

I'd like to clarify the roles and contributions regarding the i.MX REMOTEPROC
drivers:

- I (Peng Fan) authored most of the code in imx_rproc.c, contributed 
  most of the patches [1].
- Shengjiu Wang is the original author of imx_dsp_rproc.c [2].
- Daniel Baluta also has done excellent work reviewing and coordinating.

Given this, I believe it's more appropriate to keep all three of us as
'M:' maintainers in the MAINTAINERS file. This reflects the actual ownership
and ongoing maintenance responsibilities and matches the rule regarding
selecting the maintainer in
https://docs.kernel.org/maintainer/feature-and-driver-maintainers.html

We all actively maintain and support the driver, and having multiple
maintainers ensures better coverage and responsiveness.

In this patch, I use drivers/remoteproc/imx* to match imx_rproc.c and
imx_dsp_rproc.c, if you prefer, I could just add entry for imx_rproc.c:
M: Peng Fan ..
M: Daniel Baluta ..
F: drivers/remoteproc/imx_rproc[c.h]

Let me know your thoughts.

[1] patch author:
git log --pretty=format:"%an" -- drivers/remoteproc/imx_rproc.c | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr
     45 Peng Fan
      5 Christophe JAILLET
      4 Dong Aisheng
      2 Wei Yongjun
      2 Uwe Kleine-König
      2 Linus Torvalds
      2 Hiago De Franco
      2 Aleksandr Mishin
      1 Ulf Hansson
      1 Thomas Gleixner
      1 Shengjiu Wang
      1 Rob Herring (Arm)
      1 Rob Herring
      1 Oleksij Rempel
      1 Miaoqian Lin
      1 Mathieu Poirier
      1 Marek Vasut
      1 Fabio Estevam
      1 Dan Carpenter
      1 Clement Leger
      1 Andrew Davis
[2]
patch author:
git log --pretty=format:"%an" -- drivers/remoteproc/imx_dsp_rproc.c | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr
      5 Shengjiu Wang
      4 Iuliana Prodan
      3 Daniel Baluta
      2 Uwe Kleine-König
      2 Mathieu Poirier
      2 Arnd Bergmann
      1 Ulf Hansson
      1 Rob Herring (Arm)
      1 Rob Herring
      1 Peng Fan
      1 Markus Elfring
      1 Linus Torvalds
      1 Andrew Davis

Reviewed-by count:
git log --pretty=format:"%b" -- drivers/remoteproc/imx_rproc.c | grep "Reviewed-by:" | cut -d':' -f2 | cut
-d'<' -f1 | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr
     21  Mathieu Poirier
     17  Daniel Baluta
     10  Frank Li
      6  Peng Fan
      5  Iuliana Prodan
      4  Richard Zhu
      3  Ulf Hansson
      3  Oleksij Rempel
      3  Bjorn Andersson
      1  Kate Stewart
      1  Enrico Weigelt
      1  Allison Randal

git log --pretty=format:"%b" -- drivers/remoteproc/imx_dsp_rproc.c | grep "Reviewed-by:" | cut -d':' -f2 |
cut -d'<' -f1 | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr
      4  Iuliana Prodan
      3  Daniel Baluta
      2  Peng Fan
      1  Mukesh Ojha
      1  Mathieu Poirier
      1  Frank Li

Best regards,
Peng
>
>
>>  NXP NETC TIMER PTP CLOCK DRIVER
>>  M:	Wei Fang <wei.fang@nxp.com>
>>  M:	Clark Wang <xiaoning.wang@nxp.com>
>> 
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>> 2.37.1
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