Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Add Angelo as MediaTek SoC co-maintainer

Chen-Yu Tsai
2023-10-02T03:30:32Z

On Sat, Sep 30, 2023 at 3:37 AM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Sep 29, 2023, at 04:20, AngeloGioacchino Del Regno wrote:
> > I am a top reviewer mainly for MediaTek SoC related patches in most
> > subsystems and I've also been upstreaming both improvements, fixes
> > and new drivers and devicetrees when required.
> >
> > The MediaTek scene saw a generous increase in number of patches that
> > are sent to the lists every week, increasing the amount of required
> > efforts to maintain the MTK bits overall, and we will possibly see
> > even more of that.
> >
> > For this reason, and also because of suggestions and encouragement
> > coming from the community, I'm stepping up to be a co-maintainer of
> > MediaTek SoCs support.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: AngeloGioacchino Del Regno
> > <angelogioacchino.delregno@collabora.com>
> > ---
> >
> > P.S.: I tried to reach to Matthias for almost two months, but I couldn't
> > find any way to talk to him and he has been unresponsive on the mailing
> > lists as well.
> >
> > P.P.S.: This also comes after Rob Herring's suggestion to have myself as
> > a MediaTek SoC co-maintainer [1] and support from other people.
> >
> > [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230804225813.12493-1-robh@kernel.org/
>
> Thanks for volunteering for this!
>
> I have no information on what Mattias is doing, but I see that he
> has not merged any patches since June, and that he never sent a
> pull request for your patches that are still in his for-next
> branch.
>
> I hope he's going to be ok, but let's plan for you to take over
> for the moment, at least until Matthias is again able to keep
> maintaining the platform in the near future.
>
> Here is my suggestion for how to continue from here:
>
> - Please send your MAINTAINERS file update to soc@kernel.org
> along with any urgent bugfixes you may have, so I can forward
> them for 6.7. I'm wrapping up the current set of fixes at
> the moment, so this would be for next week's rc
>
> - Create a git tree with the ususal branches (drivers, soc, dt,
> fixes, for-next) and ask Stephen Rothwell (on Cc) to add
> the combined for-next branch to linux-next for integration testing

I suggest creating a shared git tree from the start. That way when
Mattias comes back and does agree to co-maintainership, or if anyone
else joins in, you don't have to change the git tree URL in a lot of
places.

> - Start each branch on 6.6-rc2 (usually we use rc1, but this time
> rc2 is a better candidate because of the last-minute
> drivers/pmdomain rename), and merge the corresponding branches
> from git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/matthias.bgg/linux.git
> into those to avoids conflicts with his tree
>
> - Add any further patches you want in 6.7 on top
>
> - Send a first set of pull requests to soc@kernel.org for whatever
> you have merged as soon as you are confident about them,
> ideally by the end of next week.
>
> - Send additional pull requests for fixups or late features in
> the weeks after that as you see fit.
>
> See Documentation/process/maintainer-soc.rst for more details
> on the above. When Mattias comes back, you can work out a new
> process together with him.

I can also answer any questions you might have about the process.

ChenYu