Re: [PATCH v6 05/16] dt-bindings: net: wireless: describe the ath12k PCI module

Bartosz Golaszewski
2024-04-05T09:52:45Z

On Fri, Apr 5, 2024 at 11:34 AM Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org> wrote:
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> Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@bgdev.pl> writes:
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> > On Mon, Mar 25, 2024 at 3:01 PM Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org> wrote:
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> >> Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@bgdev.pl> writes:
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> >> > From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@linaro.org>
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> >> > +
> >> > +maintainers:
> >> > + - Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@linaro.org>
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> >> IMHO it would be better to have just driver maintainers listed here.
> >>
> >
> > Why? What's wrong with having the author of the bindings in the Cc list?
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> If you want follow the ath12k development and review patches then you
> can join the ath12k list. I'm not fond of having too many maintainers,
> it's not really helping anything and just extra work to periodically
> cleanup the silent maintainers.
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> I would ask the opposite question: why add you as the maintainer?
> There's not even a single ath12k patch from you, nor I haven't seen you
> doing any patch review or otherwise helping others related to ath12k.
> Don't get me wrong, I value the work you do with this important powerseq
> feature and hopefully we get it into the tree soon. But I don't see
> adding you as a maintainer at this point.
>

In addition to what Krzysztof already said about you seamingly
confusing the maintenance of the driver vs maintenance of the
device-tree bindings (IOW: structured hardware description) and in
response to your question: I don't see any functional change to any
dt-bindings neither from you nor from Jeff. Are you convinced you can
maintain and properly review any changes?

If so, I don't really care, I can drop myself and have less work.

Bartosz

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