From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-alma10-1.taild15c8.ts.net [100.103.45.18]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id F121A43B3D2; Thu, 23 Jul 2026 14:04:43 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=100.103.45.18 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1784815487; cv=none; b=gXVeJqVY4REMXYoDM/y6y+4B9TZK41/DTquzH9JJMOs50QVEsAq53ePzffe+Ica58XM2ylfT3S3y+4JIXNWIszGDIdUsrvOCrbD7ax4Q1m2ILsRWDHcd3xuttCRTOnhmuCT/RqywRYyKBfgHHkBexweqUMW3VyrsKxOo8Gah4UU= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1784815487; c=relaxed/simple; bh=QONQuC+cHsosjfdLXXq/A1Qe14XsjnKSP95qF/wt4Ro=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:In-Reply-To:References: MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=MG8U8zdSVcTVlutIRTGjJff6/OM2MLxM8RD2guRqhk21K1h0ig96KEO0hmBBSMhmTmpOfVwp/yuREkMhleY2DNVLo6rI7qhYOkZCODCT+xN9CmfzUOs75Byio1VQlTBriWP8ihX8q5xFio7emMwZlFtAzSalL7aI0m8s2pzMA7I= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=100.103.45.18 Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8028B1F000E9; Thu, 23 Jul 2026 14:04:40 +0000 (UTC) Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2026 07:04:38 -0700 From: Jakub Kicinski To: Maxime Chevallier Cc: Andrew Lunn , davem@davemloft.net, Eric Dumazet , Paolo Abeni , Russell King , Heiner Kallweit , Alexis =?UTF-8?B?TG90aG9yw6k=?= , Jan Petrous , Heiko Stuebner , Nobuhiro Iwamatsu , Keguang Zhang , Yao Zi , Mohd Ayaan Anwar , Romain Gantois , Lad Prabhakar , Drew Fustini , Guo Ren , Fu Wei , Inochi Amaoto , Emil Renner Berthing , Minda Chen , Maxime Coquelin , Alexandre Torgue , netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-stm32@st-md-mailman.stormreply.com, linux-rockchip@lists.infradead.org, linux-mips@vger.kernel.org, linux-renesas-soc@vger.kernel.org, linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org, s32@nxp.com Subject: Re: [PATCH net] MAINTAINERS: Add myself for stmmac ethernet driver maintainance Message-ID: <20260723070438.69c158ba@kernel.org> In-Reply-To: <20260722142125.1767689-1-maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com> References: <20260722142125.1767689-1-maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Wed, 22 Jul 2026 16:21:24 +0200 Maxime Chevallier wrote: > The stmmac driver based on Synopsys' dwmac IP is used in a very wide > variety of SoCs and is currently very actively used and contributed to. > > It has been orphaned in January 2025 after the previous maintainers > became inactive, but Russell King was providing very valuable reviews > and fixes for the driver at that point. > > Now we're seeing more and more activity on the driver, but are lacking > people to test and review contributions to both glue drivers as well as > core stmmac code. > > I have access to some variety of stmmac-based platforms such as socfpga > CycloneV, imx8mp, some Allwinner SoCs and stm32mp1xx boards that I can > run regression tests on, and I'm offering to step-up as a maintainer for > driver, for the time being at least. > > Let's hope other people will eventually join this effort. Thanks a lot for taking this on :)