Re: [PATCH for-next] scsi: ufs: Update dwc driver maintainer to Pedro Sousa

From: Joao Pinto
Date: Wed Jan 30 2019 - 14:16:05 EST


Hello Bart,

First of all thanks for the feedback.

On 1/30/2019 5:54 PM, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> On Wed, 2019-01-30 at 18:48 +0100, Joao Pinto wrote:
>> Currently I am managing the Synopsys drivers & tools team (full-time) and
>> so I am passing the DWC UFS driver maintenance to Pedro Sousa.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Joao Pinto <jpinto@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Pedro Sousa <pedrom.sousa@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Marc Gonzalez <marc.w.gonzalez@xxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Alex Lemberg <Alex.Lemberg@xxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> MAINTAINERS | 2 +-
>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
>> index 70c93b1..458a2a2 100644
>> --- a/MAINTAINERS
>> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
>> @@ -15673,7 +15673,7 @@ F: Documentation/scsi/ufs.txt
>> F: drivers/scsi/ufs/
>>
>> UNIVERSAL FLASH STORAGE HOST CONTROLLER DRIVER DWC HOOKS
>> -M: Joao Pinto <jpinto@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> +M: Pedro Sousa <pedrom.sousa@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> L: linux-scsi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> S: Supported
>> F: drivers/scsi/ufs/*dwc*
> Shouldn't people have proven to be willing to stick around before being
> added as a kernel maintainer? Additionally, what is the experience level of
> Pedro with kernel development? All I know is the following:

Pedro Sousa is my team member and has been working in Unipro/UFS Synopsys
drivers for almost 2 years.

His work has been mainly internal, and now our goal is to start using the
mainline DWC UFS driver I submitted 2 years ago in our regular activities,
update and maintain it effectively as we are doing in other titles.

Currently I am Pedro' manager, and in my opinion he has the right experience for
this step and that is why I am suggesting to transfer Synopsys driver
maintenance from me to him.

>
> $ git log --author "Pedro Sousa" | wc -l
> 0
> $ git log | grep -c "Pedro Sousa"
> 0
>
> Are you aware that people who are not mentioned in the MAINTAINERS file are
> allowed to review kernel patches?

Yes, I am aware and Pedro is perfectly capable of doing that, and for that
reason I am suggesting him as the right person to maintain Synopsys UFS driver.

>
> Thanks,
>
> Bart.
>
Thanks,

Joao