Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Add Hans de Goede as USB VIDEO CLASS co-maintainer

[Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>]

Hi Mauro,

On Mon, Nov 18, 2024 at 07:18:01AM +0100, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> Em Sun, 17 Nov 2024 23:38:37 +0200 Laurent Pinchart escreveu:
> > On Sat, Nov 16, 2024 at 12:38:55PM +0100, Hans de Goede wrote:
> > > Add myself as co-maintainer for the UVC driver.  
> > 
> > Thanks for volunteering to help.
> > 
> > > Cc: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
> > > Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>  
> > 
> > Acked-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
> > 
> > > ---
> > >  MAINTAINERS | 1 +
> > >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> > > index 91d0609db61b..1da403e89159 100644
> > > --- a/MAINTAINERS
> > > +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> > > @@ -24063,6 +24063,7 @@ F:	drivers/usb/host/uhci*
> > >  
> > >  USB VIDEO CLASS
> > >  M:	Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
> > > +M:	Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
> > >  L:	linux-media@vger.kernel.org
> > >  S:	Maintained
> > >  W:	http://www.ideasonboard.org/uvc/  
> > 
> > I think we should update the git tree entry as well, as we're using
> > https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/linux-media/users/uvc/. As that's
> > temporary until we can merge patches directly in the multi-committers
> > tree, it may however not be worth it. What do you think ?
> 
> The official tree is now at:
> 
> 	git://linuxtv.org/media.git
> 
> Such tree is not expected to be rebased, so IMO the best is to point
> to it. I just submitted a patch mass-updating the references to
> media_tree.git to it. Such patch has to be backported, as even
> stable versions should be pointing to an existing tree (and we may
> soon get rid of the media_tree.git and media_stage.git trees).
> 
> Assuming that we have a smooth process, I don't expect that patches
> at the uvc merge tree to be there for a long time. Also, this is
> meant to be a short-lived tree with the migration to media-committers
> (which is a tree that can be rebased).
> 
> So, IMO, it is not worth pointing to the uvc merge tree.

The migration to the multi-committers tree is the main reason why I
don't think it's worth it to point to
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/linux-media/users/uvc/, assuming we start
using the multi-committers model very soon. Once done, the git tree
entry should point to that tree.

-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart