RE: [RFC PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Add an orphaned entry for the dw_mmc driver.

[Seungwon Jeon <tgih.jun@samsung.com>]

On Tuesday, January 15, 2013, Will Newton wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 8:46 AM, Seungwon Jeon <tgih.jun@samsung.com> wrote:
> > On Saturday, January 12, 2013, Chris Ball wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> On Fri, Jan 11 2013, Will Newton wrote:
> >> > I submitted this driver but will shortly no longer have access
> >> > to hardware that uses it. The driver is quite widely used so
> >> > there may be someone out there that feels strongly enough to
> >> > step up and maintain it.
> >> > ---
> >> >  MAINTAINERS |    6 ++++++
> >> >  1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> >> >
> >> > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> >> > index f940e81..88329bc 100644
> >> > --- a/MAINTAINERS
> >> > +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> >> > @@ -6558,6 +6558,12 @@ F:   include/linux/dw_dmac.h
> >> >  F: drivers/dma/dw_dmac_regs.h
> >> >  F: drivers/dma/dw_dmac.c
> >> >
> >> > +SYNOPSYS DESIGNWARE MMC/SD/SDIO DRIVER
> >> > +L: linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org
> >> > +S: Orphaned
> >> > +F: include/linux/mmc/dw_mmc.h
> >> > +F: drivers/mmc/host/dw_mmc*
> >> > +
> >> >  TIMEKEEPING, NTP
> >> >  M: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
> >> >  M: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> >>
> >> Thanks for your work on the driver, Will!  I'm CC'ing some recent
> >> committers so they can volunteer to take over if they're interested.
> > Will, Thank you for your efforts.
> > It's interesting to me. I am ready to volunteer to maintain 'dw_mmc*' driver.
> > I would appreciate it if you let me know what you think.
> 
> It's probably best to send a patch adding an entry to MAINTAINERS then
> get a couple of acks (Chris and myself anyway). Would it make sense to
> co-maintain with Jaehoon Chung as you have both been active in
> submitting patches from Samsung?
Sure, why not?
I'll have a talk with Chung. And then I'll do the next step.

Thanks,
Seungwon Jeon