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* [PATCH net] MAINTAINERS: Add myself for stmmac ethernet driver maintainance
@ 2026-07-22 14:21 Maxime Chevallier
  2026-07-23 14:04 ` Jakub Kicinski
  2026-07-23 14:10 ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Maxime Chevallier @ 2026-07-22 14:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Andrew Lunn, davem, Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni,
	Russell King, Heiner Kallweit, Alexis Lothoré, Jan Petrous,
	Heiko Stuebner, Nobuhiro Iwamatsu, Keguang Zhang, Yao Zi,
	Mohd Ayaan Anwar, Romain Gantois, Lad Prabhakar, Drew Fustini,
	Guo Ren, Fu Wei, Inochi Amaoto, Emil Renner Berthing, Minda Chen,
	Maxime Coquelin, Alexandre Torgue
  Cc: Maxime Chevallier, netdev, linux-kernel, thomas.petazzoni,
	linux-arm-kernel, linux-stm32, linux-rockchip, linux-mips,
	linux-renesas-soc, linux-riscv, s32

The stmmac driver based on Synopsys' dwmac IP is used in a very wide
variety of SoCs and is currently very actively used and contributed to.

It has been orphaned in January 2025 after the previous maintainers
became inactive, but Russell King was providing very valuable reviews
and fixes for the driver at that point.

Now we're seeing more and more activity on the driver, but are lacking
people to test and review contributions to both glue drivers as well as
core stmmac code.

I have access to some variety of stmmac-based platforms such as socfpga
CycloneV, imx8mp, some Allwinner SoCs and stm32mp1xx boards that I can
run regression tests on, and I'm offering to step-up as a maintainer for
driver, for the time being at least.

Let's hope other people will eventually join this effort.

Signed-off-by: Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com>
---

Sorry for the huge CC list, I tried to include all stmmac glue
maintainers and associated lists.

 MAINTAINERS | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index a674e36529f7..bea104a7e522 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -25972,8 +25972,9 @@ F:	Documentation/devicetree/bindings/phy/st,stm32mp25-combophy.yaml
 F:	drivers/phy/st/phy-stm32-combophy.c
 
 STMMAC ETHERNET DRIVER
+M:	Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com>
 L:	netdev@vger.kernel.org
-S:	Orphan
+S:	Maintained
 F:	Documentation/networking/device_drivers/ethernet/stmicro/
 F:	drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/
 
-- 
2.55.0


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* Re: [PATCH net] MAINTAINERS: Add myself for stmmac ethernet driver maintainance
  2026-07-22 14:21 [PATCH net] MAINTAINERS: Add myself for stmmac ethernet driver maintainance Maxime Chevallier
@ 2026-07-23 14:04 ` Jakub Kicinski
  2026-07-23 14:10 ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Jakub Kicinski @ 2026-07-23 14:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Maxime Chevallier
  Cc: Andrew Lunn, davem, Eric Dumazet, Paolo Abeni, Russell King,
	Heiner Kallweit, Alexis Lothoré, Jan Petrous, Heiko Stuebner,
	Nobuhiro Iwamatsu, Keguang Zhang, Yao Zi, Mohd Ayaan Anwar,
	Romain Gantois, Lad Prabhakar, Drew Fustini, Guo Ren, Fu Wei,
	Inochi Amaoto, Emil Renner Berthing, Minda Chen, Maxime Coquelin,
	Alexandre Torgue, netdev, linux-kernel, thomas.petazzoni,
	linux-arm-kernel, linux-stm32, linux-rockchip, linux-mips,
	linux-renesas-soc, linux-riscv, s32

On Wed, 22 Jul 2026 16:21:24 +0200 Maxime Chevallier wrote:
> The stmmac driver based on Synopsys' dwmac IP is used in a very wide
> variety of SoCs and is currently very actively used and contributed to.
> 
> It has been orphaned in January 2025 after the previous maintainers
> became inactive, but Russell King was providing very valuable reviews
> and fixes for the driver at that point.
> 
> Now we're seeing more and more activity on the driver, but are lacking
> people to test and review contributions to both glue drivers as well as
> core stmmac code.
> 
> I have access to some variety of stmmac-based platforms such as socfpga
> CycloneV, imx8mp, some Allwinner SoCs and stm32mp1xx boards that I can
> run regression tests on, and I'm offering to step-up as a maintainer for
> driver, for the time being at least.
> 
> Let's hope other people will eventually join this effort.

Thanks a lot for taking this on :)

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* Re: [PATCH net] MAINTAINERS: Add myself for stmmac ethernet driver maintainance
  2026-07-22 14:21 [PATCH net] MAINTAINERS: Add myself for stmmac ethernet driver maintainance Maxime Chevallier
  2026-07-23 14:04 ` Jakub Kicinski
@ 2026-07-23 14:10 ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: patchwork-bot+netdevbpf @ 2026-07-23 14:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Maxime Chevallier
  Cc: andrew+netdev, davem, edumazet, kuba, pabeni, linux, hkallweit1,
	alexis.lothore, jan.petrous, heiko, nobuhiro.iwamatsu.x90,
	keguang.zhang, me, mohd.anwar, romain.gantois,
	prabhakar.mahadev-lad.rj, fustini, guoren, wefu, inochiama,
	kernel, minda.chen, mcoquelin.stm32, alexandre.torgue, netdev,
	linux-kernel, thomas.petazzoni, linux-arm-kernel, linux-stm32,
	linux-rockchip, linux-mips, linux-renesas-soc, linux-riscv, s32

Hello:

This patch was applied to netdev/net.git (main)
by Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>:

On Wed, 22 Jul 2026 16:21:24 +0200 you wrote:
> The stmmac driver based on Synopsys' dwmac IP is used in a very wide
> variety of SoCs and is currently very actively used and contributed to.
> 
> It has been orphaned in January 2025 after the previous maintainers
> became inactive, but Russell King was providing very valuable reviews
> and fixes for the driver at that point.
> 
> [...]

Here is the summary with links:
  - [net] MAINTAINERS: Add myself for stmmac ethernet driver maintainance
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net/c/4a05269bb723

You are awesome, thank you!
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