Re: [PATCH net 04/11] MAINTAINERS: remove Salil Mehta from HiSilicon network drivers

[Jijie Shao <shaojijie@huawei.com>]

on 2026/3/4 5:53, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> We have not seen tags from Salil for HiSilicon network drivers
> in over 5 years. He is active upstream in other subsystems
> (KVM/ARM64 vCPU hotplug). Jian Shen and Jijie Shao are active
> in HNS3, and the review coverage is good (55%).

Hi Jakub,

Thanks for the update. I would like to clarify that Salil is a co-author of HNS3/HNS driver
and still remains our active MAINTAINER.

Based in our Cambridge, UK office, Salil has been away for extended periods recently due to a challenging personal situation.
This explains his recent lack of tags or direct networking contributions; he was outside the UK for much of this time
and had limited access to our Cambridge hardware labs. However, he continued to contribute to other areas like virtualization
where hardware dependency (especially the extensive hardware setup required for networking) was not an factor.

Despite his limited availability, he has been reviewing code in the background and working with our HQ team on HNS3 enhancements,
including performance improvements and XDP support. Many of these patches are currently pending and will be submitted soon.
We expect him to return to full capacity in mid-March, and his networking expertise remains deeply valued by Huawei.

We request that you keep him on the MAINTAINER list so he remains in the loop for all HNS3/HNS driver communications.

Thanks for your understanding.

Best regards,
Jijie Shao


>
> Subsystem HISILICON NETWORK SUBSYSTEM 3 DRIVER (HNS3)
>    Changes 69 / 125 (55%)
>    Last activity: 2026-02-06
>    Jian Shen <shenjian15@huawei.com>:
>      Author 6d2f142b1e4b 2026-02-06 00:00:00 22
>      Tags 6d2f142b1e4b 2026-02-06 00:00:00 26
>    Salil Mehta <salil.mehta@huawei.com>:
>    Jijie Shao <shaojijie@huawei.com>:
>      Author 6a0fc0ea61bd 2026-01-27 00:00:00 19
>      Tags 6d2f142b1e4b 2026-02-06 00:00:00 97
>    Top reviewers:
>      [30]: horms@kernel.org
>      [12]: andrew@lunn.ch
>      [10]: arnd@arndb.de
>      [5]: michal.swiatkowski@linux.intel.com
>      [4]: jacob.e.keller@intel.com
>    INACTIVE MAINTAINER Salil Mehta <salil.mehta@huawei.com>
>
> Subsystem HISILICON NETWORK SUBSYSTEM DRIVER
>    Changes 108 / 200 (54%)
>    Last activity: 2026-02-06
>    Jian Shen <shenjian15@huawei.com>:
>      Author 6d2f142b1e4b 2026-02-06 00:00:00 22
>      Tags 6d2f142b1e4b 2026-02-06 00:00:00 26
>    Salil Mehta <salil.mehta@huawei.com>:
>    Top reviewers:
>      [52]: horms@kernel.org
>      [17]: shaojijie@huawei.com
>      [16]: andrew@lunn.ch
>      [10]: arnd@arndb.de
>      [6]: jacob.e.keller@intel.com
>      [6]: michal.swiatkowski@linux.intel.com
>    INACTIVE MAINTAINER Salil Mehta <salil.mehta@huawei.com>
>
> Add Salil to CREDITS as the initial author of HNS3.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
> ---
> Cc: shenjian15@huawei.com
> Cc: salil.mehta@huawei.com
> Cc: shaojijie@huawei.com
> ---
>   MAINTAINERS | 2 --
>   CREDITS     | 4 ++++
>   2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index 49eb81ec3709..b9b8a7695ddb 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -11527,7 +11527,6 @@ F:	drivers/bus/hisi_lpc.c
>   
>   HISILICON NETWORK SUBSYSTEM 3 DRIVER (HNS3)
>   M:	Jian Shen <shenjian15@huawei.com>
> -M:	Salil Mehta <salil.mehta@huawei.com>
>   M:	Jijie Shao <shaojijie@huawei.com>
>   L:	netdev@vger.kernel.org
>   S:	Maintained
> @@ -11542,7 +11541,6 @@ F:	drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hibmcge/
>   
>   HISILICON NETWORK SUBSYSTEM DRIVER
>   M:	Jian Shen <shenjian15@huawei.com>
> -M:	Salil Mehta <salil.mehta@huawei.com>
>   L:	netdev@vger.kernel.org
>   S:	Maintained
>   W:	http://www.hisilicon.com
> diff --git a/CREDITS b/CREDITS
> index d74c8b2b7ed3..98aaf196567a 100644
> --- a/CREDITS
> +++ b/CREDITS
> @@ -2770,6 +2770,10 @@ E: merker@linuxtag.org
>   D: DECstation framebuffer drivers
>   S: Germany
>   
> +N: Salil Mehta
> +E: salil.mehta@huawei.com
> +D: Upstreaming of the HiSilicon HNS3 network driver
> +
>   N: Michael Meskes
>   E: meskes@debian.org
>   P: 1024/04B6E8F5 6C 77 33 CA CC D6 22 03  AB AB 15 A3 AE AD 39 7D