From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sergei Shtylyov Date: Sat, 05 Dec 2015 00:57:36 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: add myself as Renesas Ethernet drivers reviewer Message-Id: <56623680.4050808@cogentembedded.com> List-Id: References: <1846877.jRW8849mPU@wasted.cogentembedded.com> <1449276063.8611.25.camel@perches.com> In-Reply-To: <1449276063.8611.25.camel@perches.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Joe Perches , netdev@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-sh@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hello. On 12/05/2015 03:41 AM, Joe Perches wrote: >> liAdd myself as a reviewer for the Renesas Ethernet drivers -- >> hopefully I >> won't miss the buggy patches anymore. :-) >> >> Signed-off-by: Sergei Shtylyov >> >> --- >> The patch is against DaveM's 'net.git' repo. >> >> MAINTAINERS | 8 ++++++++ >> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) >> >> Index: net/MAINTAINERS >> =================================>> --- net.orig/MAINTAINERS >> +++ net/MAINTAINERS >> @@ -8929,6 +8929,14 @@ F: drivers/rpmsg/ >> F: Documentation/rpmsg.txt >> F: include/linux/rpmsg.h >> >> +RENESAS ETHERNET DRIVERS >> +R: Sergei Shtylyov >> +L: netdev@vger.kernel.orgc >> +L: linux-sh@vger.kernel.org >> +S: Maintained >> +F: drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/ >> +F: include/linux/sh_eth.h > Hello Sergei > > Typically a reviewer isn't a maintainer. Yeah, I didn't take courage to become a real maintainer, being always short of time... But I was annoyed by dubious quality patches being merged recently. > Does anyone actually maintain this? Only DaveM. > I suggest you mark this "S: Odd fixes" or > remove the "S:" line altogether unless you > really want to become the maintainer. OK, will remove, if that's OK. PS: Since you seem to be get_maintainers.pl maintainer, I (and not only I) would like to propose a switch to suppress the committers/authors/etc. It's generally annoying and unhelpful to have the bunch of people listed, none of which usually are a good addressees for the patches... MBR, Sergei