Re: [PATCH] ata: add MAINTAINERS entry for libata PATA drivers

[Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>]

Hi,

On Tuesday, December 02, 2014 05:29:07 PM Alan Cox wrote:
> On Tue, 2014-12-02 at 20:21 +0300, Sergei Shtylyov wrote:
> > On 12/02/2014 07:29 PM, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> > 
> > > Add myself as the primary maintainer for libata PATA drivers.
> > 
> > > The merging process would remain unchanged with patches going
> > > through Tejun's tree.
> > 
> > > Cc: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
> > > Cc: Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@cogentembedded.com>
> > > Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>
> > > Acked-by: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com>
> > > ---
> > > If people are fine with it I would like to more officially take
> > > care of the libata PATA drivers.
> > 
> > >   MAINTAINERS |    8 ++++++++
> > >   1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
> > 
> > > Index: b/MAINTAINERS
> > > ===================================================================
> > > --- a/MAINTAINERS	2014-12-02 16:48:28.932973963 +0100
> > > +++ b/MAINTAINERS	2014-12-02 16:58:35.532969351 +0100
> > > @@ -7116,6 +7116,14 @@ F:	drivers/video/fbdev/sti*
> > >   F:	drivers/video/console/sti*
> > >   F:	drivers/video/logo/logo_parisc*
> > >
> > > +PATA LIBATA DRIVERS
> > > +M:	Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>
> > > +M:	Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
> > > +L:	linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
> > > +T:	git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/libata.git
> > > +S:	Supported
> > > +F:	drivers/ata/pata_*.c
> > > +
> > 
> >     What about ata_{generic|piix}.c? Those are PATA as well as SATA...
> 
> ata_piix is maintained (as such as it needs to be) by Intel and pretty
> much every change in recent history is SATA.

Yep.

> ata_generic is a good point.

I would be happy to also cover ata_generic under PATA drivers entry if
needed.  Tejun, what is your preference here?

Best regards,
--
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Samsung R&D Institute Poland
Samsung Electronics