From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755721AbbLEA5m (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Dec 2015 19:57:42 -0500 Received: from mail-lb0-f175.google.com ([209.85.217.175]:36847 "EHLO mail-lb0-f175.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754295AbbLEA5k (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Dec 2015 19:57:40 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: add myself as Renesas Ethernet drivers reviewer To: Joe Perches , netdev@vger.kernel.org References: <1846877.jRW8849mPU@wasted.cogentembedded.com> <1449276063.8611.25.camel@perches.com> Cc: linux-sh@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Sergei Shtylyov Organization: Cogent Embedded Message-ID: <56623680.4050808@cogentembedded.com> Date: Sat, 5 Dec 2015 03:57:36 +0300 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1449276063.8611.25.camel@perches.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: 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