From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Lennert Buytenhek Subject: Re: [PATCH] ep93xx-eth: convert to phylib Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2011 19:34:38 +0200 Message-ID: <20110606173438.GC11275@wantstofly.org> References: <201106051957.36492.florian@openwrt.org> <201106052029.24742.f.fainelli@gmail.com> <20110605.140657.1039864716002412071.davem@davemloft.net> <201106060715.52332.florian@openwrt.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, mika.westerberg@iki.fi, hvr@gnu.org, hsweeten@visionengravers.com, ryan@bluewatersys.com, David Miller , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org To: Florian Fainelli Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <201106060715.52332.florian@openwrt.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: linux-arm-kernel-bounces@lists.infradead.org Errors-To: linux-arm-kernel-bounces+linux-arm-kernel=m.gmane.org@lists.infradead.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 07:15:52AM +0200, Florian Fainelli wrote: > > Instead there are several different people submitting changes to > > this one driver and I haven't got a clue who is authoritative and > > who is not. > > > > So 9 times out of ten I'm not going to merge anything submitted > > in this way unless I start to see lots of ACKs from other developers. > > > > When it gets to the point where multiple people are touching the > > driver in all sorts of ways, there needs to be someone to do all of > > the merging and making sure the patches get applied in the right order > > and handling merge conflicts handled properly. Then they submit them > > formally here as a sane single set of patches to the list. > > > > So who is going to step up and be the ep93xx-eth maintainer? Lennert > > is listed in MAINTAINERS, but I see little to no activity from him. > > Lennert, do you still have time, hardware and will to maintain that driver? I still have hardware, but I have been pretty short on time lately. I'd be happy to hand over maintainership of this driver.