Re: [PATCH v2 3/6] firmware: arm_scmi: Add SCMI v3.2 pincontrol protocol basic support

Linus Walleij
2024-01-28T00:00:26Z

On Wed, Jan 17, 2024 at 8:38 PM Cristian Marussi
<cristian.marussi@arm.com> wrote:

> > +SYSTEM CONTROL MANAGEMENT INTERFACE (SCMI) PINCTRL DRIVER
> > +M: Oleksii Moisieiev <oleksii_moisieiev@epam.com>
> > +L: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
> > +S: Maintained
> > +F: drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/pinctrl.c
> > +
>
> I've got to check this with Sudeep since giving exclusive maintainership
> of this bit could lead to troubles if the assigned maintainer becomes
> unresponsive, and it seems this is already the case indeed even before
> this thing is merged. Oleksii and EPAM will anyway maintain authorship
> in any case; I'll check with Sudeep, as said.

As maintainer I regularly just lose patience and apply patches if the
driver maintainer becomes unresponsive so that's what is to be expected.

That, said: the more maintainers, the better. In this case some co-maintainer
@arm.com would be nice. Just list several.

Yours,
Linus Walleij