From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Kirsher Subject: Re: [net-next 2/8] maintainers: update with official intel support link, new maintainer Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 21:32:46 -0700 Message-ID: <1351053166.2252.39.camel@jtkirshe-mobl> References: <1350987887-16161-1-git-send-email-jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> <1350987887-16161-3-git-send-email-jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> <1350998701.7502.42.camel@joe-AO722> Reply-To: jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg="pgp-sha512"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-K4VSOEDDhJdK1OjD0Qb1" Cc: Tushar Dave , davem@davemloft.net, Jesse Brandeburg , netdev@vger.kernel.org, gospo@redhat.com, sassmann@redhat.com To: Joe Perches Return-path: Received: from mga09.intel.com ([134.134.136.24]:49584 "EHLO mga09.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755909Ab2JXEdA (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Oct 2012 00:33:00 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1350998701.7502.42.camel@joe-AO722> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: --=-K4VSOEDDhJdK1OjD0Qb1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 2012-10-23 at 06:25 -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > On Tue, 2012-10-23 at 03:24 -0700, Jeff Kirsher wrote: > > From: Jesse Brandeburg > >=20 > > Add an official link which is designed to guide the user to the appropr= iate > > support resource (be it community, OEM, Intel phone, Intel email, etc) > >=20 > > Add the current e1000 maintainer to the list of Intel maintainers. >=20 > Hi Jeff. >=20 > I think it's unwise to have 10 named maintainers for all > the intel ethernet drivers if there are specialists > maintainers. >=20 > Maybe it'd be better to break out these sub-maintainers > into specific driver sections with you as the overall > maintainer. >=20 > Maybe add an internal exploder to get all the various > maintainers on a list if everyone really looks at all > patches to intel drivers. >=20 > Something like: >=20 > INTEL ETHERNET DRIVERS > M: Jeff Kirsher > M: Intel Linux Support > T: git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jkirsher/net.git > T: git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jkirsher/net-next.gi= t > S: Supported > F: drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ >=20 > INTEL ETHERNET E1000 DRIVER > M: Tushar Dave > S: Supported > F: drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/ > F: Documentation/networking/e1000.txt >=20 > etc... I understand where your coming from and this has been been something that I have been trying to find a "reasonable" solution, which is harder to do than one would expect. We do have developers like Bruce Allan who maintains e1000e and Carolyn Wyborny who maintains igb and Don Skidmore (and others) who maintain ixgbe. The problem we did not want to fall into by pigeon holing developers in maintaining a driver. Developers like John, Jesse, Alex, and Tushar work on all of our drivers. Jesse tends to focus on performance related matters, where as Tushar responds to customer issues on any driver and does the root cause and fix for the issues. So how do we go about giving this spider web of complex coverage to some clear concise coverage in the MAINTAINERS? For now, the solution was to list all the developers actively working on the kernel drivers since anyone of them can work on pretty much anyone of our drivers. If you have some ideas which may help resolve the issues, I am open to suggestions. --=-K4VSOEDDhJdK1OjD0Qb1 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAABCgAGBQJQh29uAAoJEOVv75VaS+3ODNoP/jTITJilY+shqnJjV5vL+swE myP51e8rp8fzBr5imP4OJf7E4MvcWOdzkp0iuDbntBQvycxC1JVBzf0eeO+RwJtC EKjx6bGDLKFC5ta/28Bs6Ye8e4trlp2ow2f5qTjylDVzz/Fv07vfOV4Bm7u1dRVp 2TpADdXj/osdXOInzxTnwNCPqngsBE06GbCn76hUD4TDantq4YgaB+uZFEoBmBmk djpr4TdS/kR896uzb3GEaGyLS3BNo6vjPruD1D0nTKNp2crN0+GOtGzJ6V5+51fp 7Fi8BjZW2VymDqgkscmRmPksd1H6Yml4uTUWjmKlpdZa1CPCDc/Pz5d2xgGAn+N3 53c+plXXdYgNkB+hFmTDLidAGoSvoEXh8R1atB+T8JhdSXoaXfJTZhR3YF8zrVkJ T0NnZcOuDnLPQTh9J+BtWAfOXFD9FT+6YW14s79RzdNfxboPWTgiQe5ETjtO2Mp9 VDyn54CI9SG2YhV6eIJuiXO4sGDGJfLTImMIyBoRkpbZfjIRkrd2u7k3KWY0nBx3 PBNJ6CvFuiQpLMI8lmWDs4MItrSRs4Sw4OvRmxD6EzKv7rmyPBb2eOSBX3wWi592 gDngLgqTXiD3RwAPmji3uRtgImV77NYnTa9caWJ+6rN8z/CJ8SkmH3nDXkrgGP8l LK4xHW/+WdImjmk2gHCv =SABu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-K4VSOEDDhJdK1OjD0Qb1--