Re: [EXT] Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] wifi: mwifiex: Fix premature release of RF calibration data.

[Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org>]

On Tue, Mar 25, 2025 at 05:45:10PM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Tue, 2025-03-25 at 16:43 +0000, Jeff Chen wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > I have decided to withdraw the patch. I appreciate your feedback and attention to detail, 
> > which helped identify this oversight.  
> > 
> 
> This goes for _everyone_ on this thread... I applied this patch a long
> time ago. Whatever you need to fix, you need to send new patches.

If it needs withdrawn, I suppose Jeff should send a revert patch then.

> And I guess next time I'm not going to apply any patches for mwifiex
> however innocent they look ... thus making the situation of that driver
> even worse than it is now.
> 
> So please get together and form a plan on how to maintain it.

My 2 cents:

 * Technically, I'm listed as maintainer still. I'm not always prompt,
   but I try to eventually get around to stuff (or at least see that
   Francesco reviews). I believe the previous implicit agreement would
   be that the wireless-drivers maintainer would wait for an Ack from
   sub-maintainer(s) before applying, unless they were truly trivial. I
   don't require that, of course, if you'd like to take things on your
   own Johannes, but that was my previous understanding.
 * I'm also used to seeing email replies when patches get applied. Kalle
   used to do that (presumably from some kind of push-time automation?),
   but I see you don't. You're of course free to do this however works
   best for you, but I find such emails useful for all interested
   parties (authors, reviewers, etc.). For example, if I thought the
   patches were controversial and were on my ToDo list, I'd probably
   speak up sooner.

Brian