Re: [PATCH v3] MAINTAINERS: Add new maintainers to Redpine driver

["Jérôme Pouiller" <jerome.pouiller@silabs.com>]

On Saturday 27 May 2023 23:12:16 CEST Marek Vasut wrote:
> On 2/27/23 11:28, Kalle Valo wrote:
> > Ganapathi Kondraju <ganapathi.kondraju@silabs.com> writes:
> >
> >> Silicon Labs acquired Redpine Signals recently. It needs to continue
> >> giving support to the existing REDPINE WIRELESS DRIVER. This patch adds
> >> new Maintainers for it.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Ganapathi Kondraju <ganapathi.kondraju@silabs.com>
> >> ---
> >> V2:
> >> - Add proper prefix for patch subject.
> >> - Reorder the maintainers list alphabetically.
> >> - Add a new member to the list.
> >> ---
> >> V3:
> >> - Fix sentence formation in the patch subject and description.
> >> ---
> >>
> >>   MAINTAINERS | 8 +++++++-
> >>   1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> >> index ea941dc..04a08c7 100644
> >> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> >> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> >> @@ -17709,8 +17709,14 @@ S:  Maintained
> >>   F: drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw89/
> >>
> >>   REDPINE WIRELESS DRIVER
> >> +M:  Amol Hanwate <amol.hanwate@silabs.com>
> >> +M:  Ganapathi Kondraju <ganapathi.kondraju@silabs.com>
> >> +M:  Jérôme Pouiller <jerome.pouiller@silabs.com>
> >> +M:  Narasimha Anumolu <narasimha.anumolu@silabs.com>
> >> +M:  Shivanadam Gude <shivanadam.gude@silabs.com>
> >> +M:  Srinivas Chappidi <srinivas.chappidi@silabs.com>
> >>   L: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
> >> -S:  Orphan
> >> +S:  Maintained
> >>   F: drivers/net/wireless/rsi/
> >
> > For me six maintainers is way too much. Just last November I marked this
> > driver as orphan, I really do not want to add all these people to
> > MAINTAINERS and never hear from them again.
> >
> > Ideally I would prefer to have one or two maintainers who would be
> > actively working with the drivers. And also I would like to see some
> > proof (read: reviewing patches and providing feedback) that the
> > maintainers are really parciticiping in upstream before changing the
> > status.
> 
> Has there been any progress on improving this driver maintainership
> since this patch ?

Hello Marek,

The situation is still blurry. There is a willing to maintain this driver
(and several people would like I take care of that). However, the effort
to properly support this driver is still unknown (in fact, I have not yet
started to really look at the situation).

Is this driver blocking some architectural changes? Kalle is talking about
patches to review. Can you point me on them?

Anyway, I would like to come back with a plan by the end of the summer.

-- 
Jérôme Pouiller