From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Joe Perches Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] MAINTAINERS: PHY: Change maintainer to reviewer Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2015 17:04:11 -0800 Message-ID: <1448413451.20113.20.camel@perches.com> References: <1448407790-22336-1-git-send-email-f.fainelli@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: davem@davemloft.net To: Florian Fainelli , netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from smtprelay0075.hostedemail.com ([216.40.44.75]:56591 "EHLO smtprelay.hostedemail.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932718AbbKYBEO (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Nov 2015 20:04:14 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1448407790-22336-1-git-send-email-f.fainelli@gmail.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, 2015-11-24 at 15:29 -0800, Florian Fainelli wrote: > Now that there is a reviewer role, add myself as reviewer since the PHY > library code is maintained via the networking tree. [] > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS [] > @@ -4195,7 +4195,7 @@ F: include/linux/netfilter_bridge/ > F:> > net/bridge/ > > ETHERNET PHY LIBRARY > -M: Florian Fainelli > +R: Florian Fainelli > L: netdev@vger.kernel.org > S: Maintained > F: include/linux/phy.h Just because the upstream path is not a tree you manage doesn't mean you aren't a maintainer. I think the status should be something other than "Maintained" if you are not the maintainer.