Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Become the stmmac maintainer

[Yanteng Si <si.yanteng@linux.dev>]

Hi Jakub, Andrew,

On 1/11/25 08:54, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Jan 2025 18:22:03 +0100 Andrew Lunn wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 10, 2025 at 10:49:43PM +0800, Yanteng Si wrote:
>>> I am the author of dwmac-loongson. The patch set was merged several
>>> months ago. For a long time hereafter, I don't wish stmmac to remain
>>> in an orphan state perpetually. Therefore, if no one is willing to
>>> assume the role of the maintainer, I would like to be responsible for
>>> the subsequent maintenance of stmmac. Meanwhile, Huacai is willing to
>>> become a reviewer.
>>>
>>> About myself, I submitted my first kernel patch on January 4th, 2021.
>>> I was still reviewing new patches last week, and I will remain active
>>> on the mailing list in the future.
>>>
>>> Co-developed-by: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@kernel.org>
>>> Signed-off-by: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@kernel.org>
>>> Signed-off-by: Yanteng Si <si.yanteng@linux.dev>
>> Thanks for volunteering for this. Your experience adding loongson
>> support will be useful here. But with a driver of this complexity, and
>> the number of different vendors using it, i think it would be good if
>> you first established a good reputation for doing the work before we
>> add you to the Maintainers. There are a number of stmmac patches on
>> the list at the moment, please actually do the job of being a
>> Maintainer and spend some time review them.
>>
>> A Synopsis engineer has also said he would start doing Maintainer
>> work. Hopefully in the end we can add you both to MAINTAINERS.
> +1, thanks a lot for volunteering! There are 22 patches for stmmac
> pending review in patchwork, so please don't hesitate and start
> reviewing and testing.

Okay, thank you for your encouragement.

In the following period of time, I will try to review and

test the patches of stmmac.


Thanks,

Yanteng