Re: [PATCH v3] MAINTAINERS: Add new maintainers to Redpine driver

[Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de>]

On 2/27/23 11:28, Kalle Valo wrote:
> Ganapathi Kondraju <ganapathi.kondraju@silabs.com> writes:
> 
>> Silicon Labs acquired Redpine Signals recently. It needs to continue
>> giving support to the existing REDPINE WIRELESS DRIVER. This patch adds
>> new Maintainers for it.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Ganapathi Kondraju <ganapathi.kondraju@silabs.com>
>> ---
>> V2:
>> - Add proper prefix for patch subject.
>> - Reorder the maintainers list alphabetically.
>> - Add a new member to the list.
>> ---
>> V3:
>> - Fix sentence formation in the patch subject and description.
>> ---
>>
>>   MAINTAINERS | 8 +++++++-
>>   1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
>> index ea941dc..04a08c7 100644
>> --- a/MAINTAINERS
>> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
>> @@ -17709,8 +17709,14 @@ S:	Maintained
>>   F:	drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw89/
>>   
>>   REDPINE WIRELESS DRIVER
>> +M:	Amol Hanwate <amol.hanwate@silabs.com>
>> +M:	Ganapathi Kondraju <ganapathi.kondraju@silabs.com>
>> +M:	Jérôme Pouiller <jerome.pouiller@silabs.com>
>> +M:	Narasimha Anumolu <narasimha.anumolu@silabs.com>
>> +M:	Shivanadam Gude <shivanadam.gude@silabs.com>
>> +M:	Srinivas Chappidi <srinivas.chappidi@silabs.com>
>>   L:	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
>> -S:	Orphan
>> +S:	Maintained
>>   F:	drivers/net/wireless/rsi/
> 
> For me six maintainers is way too much. Just last November I marked this
> driver as orphan, I really do not want to add all these people to
> MAINTAINERS and never hear from them again.
> 
> Ideally I would prefer to have one or two maintainers who would be
> actively working with the drivers. And also I would like to see some
> proof (read: reviewing patches and providing feedback) that the
> maintainers are really parciticiping in upstream before changing the
> status.

Has there been any progress on improving this driver maintainership 
since this patch ?