Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: change maintainer for Rockchip drm drivers

From: Doug Anderson
Date: Tue Nov 28 2017 - 18:42:46 EST


Hi,

On Sun, Nov 26, 2017 at 6:22 PM, Sandy Huang <hjc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
> I register the account and get the drm-misc commit rights now, thanks.
>
>
> å 2017/11/24 22:51, Daniel Vetter åé:
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 24, 2017 at 09:28:59AM +0100, Heiko Stuebner wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Daniel,
>>>
>>> [somehow my email address seems to have gotten lost, so
>>> only saw this by chance on the list itself now.
>>> I've also re-added Sandy to the recipients]
>>>
>>> Am Montag, 20. November 2017, 08:48:48 CET schrieb Daniel Vetter:
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 06:15:31PM +0800, Mark Yao wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> For personal reasons, Mark Yao will leave rockchip,
>>>>> can not continue maintain drm/rockchip, Sandy Huang
>>>>> will take over the drm/rockchip.
>>>>>
>>>>> Cc: Sandy Huang <hjc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>> Cc: Heiko Stuebner <heiko@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>>>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Mark Yao <mark.yao@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Since rockchip is in drm-misc that means we need a new maintainer who
>>>> also
>>>> has drm-misc commit rights. Sandy doesn't yet, so if Sandy is going to
>>>> be
>>>> the new maintainer we need to fix that.
>>>>
>>>> Also, Heiko, are you interested in becoming co-maintainer? With commit
>>>> rights and all.
>>>
>>>
>>> I always feel somewhat inadequate judging the fast-paced drm stuff, as in
>>> the past once I got my head wrapped around something, drm always
>>> somehow moved another mile already ;-) .
>>>
>>> But somewhere I read that drm-pace for big changes is supposed to slow a
>>> bit now that atomic modesetting is done in a lot of places, so we could
>>> give
>>> co-maintainership for the Rockchip-drm a try - with Sandy wearing the
>>> actual hat for big changes though ;-) .
>>
>>
>> Yeah I think on the modeset side it calmed down a lot. We're still
>> fine-tuning the helper libraries as we're figuring out better ways to
>> write drivers. But right now I think a lot of the action is all in details
>> not relevant for many drivers.
>>
>> If Sandy's ok with that too pls request an fd.o account for drm-misc and
>> set up the tooling per our quickstart guide:
>>
>> https://01.org/linuxgraphics/gfx-docs/maintainer-tools/dim.html#quickstart
>>
>> Thanks, Daniel

I just got a bounced mail from Mark Yao's old email address and
noticed that linux-next still shows him as the maintainer. It'd be
great if we could land the change to update the MAINTAINERS file. :-P

-Doug