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Tue, 05 May 2026 19:09:24 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 05 May 2026 17:25:32 +0530 From: Sanjay Chitroda To: Jonathan Cameron , Andy Shevchenko CC: dlechner@baylibre.com, nuno.sa@analog.com, lars@metafoo.de, andy@kernel.org, linux-iio@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 2/5] MAINTAINERS: iio: adi: consolidate entries User-Agent: Thunderbird for Android In-Reply-To: <20260505115409.44245db6@jic23-huawei> References: <20260430190642.3434650-1-sanjayembedded@gmail.com> <20260430190642.3434650-3-sanjayembedded@gmail.com> <20260504172457.4d7c7390@jic23-huawei> <20260505115409.44245db6@jic23-huawei> Message-ID: <5A7BC21E-03BD-40DD-8AB5-0ED6106B51EC@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-iio@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 5 May 2026 4:24:09=E2=80=AFpm IST, Jonathan Cameron wrote: >On Tue, 5 May 2026 12:04:40 +0300 >Andy Shevchenko wrote: > >> On Tue, May 05, 2026 at 08:00:23AM +0530, Sanjay Chitroda wrote: >> > On 4 May 2026 9:54:57=E2=80=AFpm IST, Jonathan Cameron wrote: =20 >> > >On Fri, 1 May 2026 00:36:39 +0530 >> > >Sanjay Chitroda wrote: =20 >>=20 >> =2E=2E=2E >>=20 >> > >> -AD738X ADC DRIVER (AD7380/1/2/4) >> > >> -M: Michael Hennerich >> > >> -M: Nuno S=C3=A1 =20 >> > >Specific maintainer=2E Why is it going? =20 >> >=20 >> > I'm assuming that to avoid de-bounce issues from *@analog=2Ecom domai= n, we are >> > adding linux@analog=2Ecom mailing list as primary contact=2E with tha= t in mind, >> > this series drops all entries which match the wildcard and have analo= g domain >> > maintainer or reviewer while keeping the rest as unchanged=2E =20 >>=20 >> But it's removing people behind their will! You really should do this >> case-by-case=2E Some of the people who left the company might still wan= t to >> follow the driver or even maintain it=2E What you should do is also pay= attention >> on the Supported vs=2E Maintained which makes a huge difference on the >> responsibility and financial side of the Subject=2E > >Some of this was in response to discussion with on specific person=2E >That one is fine but be very careful beyond that=2E >Probably best to add a link tag back to that discussion as well=2E > > >>=20 >> Btw, Have you consulted with your Legal department on all this? >>=20 >> > >> -R: David Lechner =20 >> >=20 >> > Additionally, When David is list as reviewer in individual driver ent= ries, I >> > consider as redundant part; All IIO subsystem drivers/iio* already co= vered by >> > top level entry, which includes Andy and David as reviewer=2E >> >=20 >> > Summary of changes in series: >> > - analog domain specific entries are dropped and catch with linux@ana= log=2Ecom >> > under ADI IIO section=2E =20 >>=20 >> No, you should give a good explanation why in each case=2E Yes, you may= combine >> the cases when people left the company, but you also need to >> - consult with your Legal >> - consult with those who left on what they wish >>=20 >> None of them seems done so far=2E So, again BIG NAK from me on this ser= ies! >> Rework them and even part that drops the entries that already have the = same >> maintainers as current ADI level ones (assuming adding Nuno in a separa= te >> prerequisite patch) is good to go=2E > >I'm not keen on using the top level reviewers as enough to drop an entry= =2E >Where Nuno and David have specific driver entries the lifetime of those >may well be different to the top level one=2E So leave those alone=2E > >The only ones I don't mind falling back to the top level catch alls are >those where we are dropping a reviewer / maintainer (and they were asked) >+ there is nothing else listed - hence the higher level entry is the >only source of information=2E > >A wider scrub is not appropriate=2E Thank you Andy and Jonathan for review comment=2E Following current discussion, I will send next series with 2 changes: - ADI IIO entry to update maintainer and mailing list - To update or drop entry where we received confirmation from specific mai= ntainer=20 There should not be any update on specific entry to drop without the conse= nt of respective reviewer/maintainer=2E >>=20 >> > - Non analog devices reviewers and maintainer is unchanged for each d= river entry=2E >> >=20 >> > Further, I also agree with adding Nuno S=C3=A1 as a maintainer in the= top-level >> > ADI IIO entry, so that all drivers are maintained via the mailing lis= t with >> > his oversight=2E >> > =20 >> > >> -S: Supported >> > >> -W: https://wiki=2Eanalog=2Ecom/resources/tools-software/linux-dri= vers/iio-adc/ad738x >> > >> -W: https://ez=2Eanalog=2Ecom/linux-software-drivers >> > >> -F: Documentation/devicetree/bindings/iio/adc/adi,ad7380=2Eyaml >> > >> -F: Documentation/iio/ad7380=2Erst >> > >> -F: drivers/iio/adc/ad7380=2Ec =20 >>=20 >