MMC maintainer

MMC maintainer

[Chris Ball]

Hi all,

I've been considering volunteering to take over as MMC maintainer.
I mentioned this to my boss at OLPC, and he's willing to have some
of my OLPC hours each week allocated towards maintaining MMC, which
encourages me more.

So, here's my humble offer: I can take care of maintaining an MMC tree
for -next, keeping it working and tested, sending pull requests, and
making sure that patches are kept track of and reach the appropriate
places for review.  I wouldn't plan on changing patch workflow --
patches would still be submitted and responded to on the list.

I'm also interested in setting up automated testing to catch
performance and functionality regressions similarly to the Xorg
Tinderbox¹, which I run.  Aside from that, I'd be open to hearing
about what anyone else thinks is a priority to work on in the MMC
stack.

Let me know what you think, and if this sounds like a reasonable
idea then I'll work out a transition plan with Andrew.

Thanks,

- Chris.

¹:  http://tinderbox.x.org/
-- 
Chris Ball   <cjb@laptop.org>   <http://printf.net/>
One Laptop Per Child

Re: MMC maintainer

[Andrew Morton]

On Thu, 09 Sep 2010 12:39:55 -0400 Chris Ball <cjb@laptop.org> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I've been considering volunteering to take over as MMC maintainer.
> I mentioned this to my boss at OLPC, and he's willing to have some
> of my OLPC hours each week allocated towards maintaining MMC, which
> encourages me more.
> 
> So, here's my humble offer: I can take care of maintaining an MMC tree
> for -next, keeping it working and tested, sending pull requests, and
> making sure that patches are kept track of and reach the appropriate
> places for review.  I wouldn't plan on changing patch workflow --
> patches would still be submitted and responded to on the list.
> 
> I'm also interested in setting up automated testing to catch
> performance and functionality regressions similarly to the Xorg
> Tinderbox__, which I run.  Aside from that, I'd be open to hearing
> about what anyone else thinks is a priority to work on in the MMC
> stack.
> 
> Let me know what you think,

Sounds good to me, thanks.

> and if this sounds like a reasonable
> idea then I'll work out a transition plan with Andrew.

These things can happen in parallel - get the tree set up, get it into
linux-next, start putting patches in it.  If I see patches turn up in
linux-next which I already have, I just drop them.  If I find I'm
holding patches which should be in the mmc tree but which aren't, I
send them to you.

Re: MMC maintainer

[Chris Ball]

Hi Andrew,

On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 11:47:50AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> These things can happen in parallel - get the tree set up, get it into
> linux-next, start putting patches in it.  If I see patches turn up in
> linux-next which I already have, I just drop them.  If I find I'm
> holding patches which should be in the mmc tree but which aren't, I
> send them to you.

Thanks -- have created the tree, added its mmc-next branch to -next, and
started pushing to it (location below).  Here's a MAINTAINERS update:

Subject: mmc: add MAINTAINERS entry

Add myself as maintainer.

Signed-off-by: Chris Ball <cjb@laptop.org>
---
 MAINTAINERS |    8 ++++++--
 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 9800de5..42f86da 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -3906,8 +3906,10 @@ S:	Supported
 F:	drivers/mfd/
 
 MULTIMEDIA CARD (MMC), SECURE DIGITAL (SD) AND SDIO SUBSYSTEM
-S:	Orphan
+M:	Chris Ball <cjb@laptop.org>
 L:	linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org
+T:	git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cjb/mmc.git
+S:	Maintained
 F:	drivers/mmc/
 F:	include/linux/mmc/
 
@@ -5078,8 +5080,10 @@ S:	Maintained
 F:	drivers/mmc/host/sdricoh_cs.c
 
 SECURE DIGITAL HOST CONTROLLER INTERFACE (SDHCI) DRIVER
-S:	Orphan
+M:	Chris Ball <cjb@laptop.org>
 L:	linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org
+T:	git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cjb/mmc.git
+S:	Maintained
 F:	drivers/mmc/host/sdhci.*
 
 SECURE DIGITAL HOST CONTROLLER INTERFACE, OPEN FIRMWARE BINDINGS (SDHCI-OF)
-- 
1.7.0.1

-- 
Chris Ball   <cjb@laptop.org>   <http://printf.net/>
One Laptop Per Child

Re: MMC maintainer

[Andrew Morton]

On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 21:14:19 +0100
Chris Ball <cjb@laptop.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 11:47:50AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > These things can happen in parallel - get the tree set up, get it into
> > linux-next, start putting patches in it.  If I see patches turn up in
> > linux-next which I already have, I just drop them.  If I find I'm
> > holding patches which should be in the mmc tree but which aren't, I
> > send them to you.
> 
> Thanks -- have created the tree, added its mmc-next branch to -next, and
> started pushing to it (location below).  Here's a MAINTAINERS update:
> 
> Subject: mmc: add MAINTAINERS entry
> 
> Add myself as maintainer.

Kewl.  Please work with Stephen on getting that into linux-next.

Re: MMC maintainer

[Nicolas Pitre]

On Thu, 9 Sep 2010, Chris Ball wrote:

> Let me know what you think, and if this sounds like a reasonable
> idea then I'll work out a transition plan with Andrew.

I think this is a pretty good idea.


Nicolas