RE: [PATCH v2 6/6] drivers: soc: xilinx: update maintainer of event manager driver

Buddhabhatti, Jay
2023-10-05T15:52:53Z

Hi Greg,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Simek, Michal <michal.simek@amd.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 4, 2023 8:05 PM
> To: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> Cc: Buddhabhatti, Jay <jay.buddhabhatti@amd.com>; Shah, Tanmay
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> Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 6/6] drivers: soc: xilinx: update maintainer of event
> manager driver
>
>
>
> On 10/4/23 15:47, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 04, 2023 at 03:16:15PM +0200, Michal Simek wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> On 10/4/23 14:17, Greg KH wrote:
> >>> On Wed, Oct 04, 2023 at 02:41:16AM -0700, Jay Buddhabhatti wrote:
> >>>> Added Michal as a maintainer of event manager driver as Abhyuday is
> >>>> no longer in AMD-Xilinx.
> >>>>
> >>>> Signed-off-by: Jay Buddhabhatti <jay.buddhabhatti@amd.com>
> >>>> Acked-by: Michal Simek <michal.simek@amd.com>
> >>>> ---
> >>>> MAINTAINERS | 2 +-
> >>>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >>>>
> >>>> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS index
> >>>> 35977b269d5e..f36fefd7032b 100644
> >>>> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> >>>> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> >>>> @@ -23672,7 +23672,7 @@ F:
> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/can/xilinx,can.yaml
> >>>> F: drivers/net/can/xilinx_can.c
> >>>> XILINX EVENT MANAGEMENT DRIVER
> >>>> -M: Abhyuday Godhasara <abhyuday.godhasara@xilinx.com>
> >>>> +M: Michal Simek <michal.simek@amd.com>
> >>>
> >>> For obvious reasons, we need an ack from Abhyuday.
> >>
> >> He no longer works for Xilinx/AMD but I have asked him on side
> >> channel to reply and let's see if this is going to happen or not.
> >
> > Mantainerships follow people, not companies, so if he wants to keep
> > being the maintainer, he can be, there's no requirement for him to
> > step down.
>
> No doubt about it but normally in these cases people send a patch to start to
> use their new email address which is what didn't happen for quite a long time
> in this case.
> I am definitely happy to wait some time if he reacts but if there is no reaction
> for some time we should fix it.

[Jay] I got information that Abhyuday is aware about this, but he is not going to react on it.

Thanks,
Jay
>
> Thanks,
> Michal