Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] Some small cleanup/fixes for SPMI driver

From: Stephen Boyd
Date: Wed Oct 14 2020 - 17:26:41 EST


Quoting Greg Kroah-Hartman (2020-10-03 03:56:53)
> On Fri, Oct 02, 2020 at 02:22:17PM -0700, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> > Quoting Mauro Carvalho Chehab (2020-09-28 23:22:11)
> > > Hi Stephen,
> > >
> > > While double-checking against yesterday's linux-next, I noticed
> > > that those two patches weren't merge yet.
> > >
> > > As you replied to both with your Reviewed-by:, are you expecting
> > > them to be merged via someone's tree, or are you intending
> > > to merge them via your tree?
> >
> > Per the maintainers file I am a reviewer not a maintainer of SPMI.
> > Usually Greg applies patches here. I can collect patches and send them
> > on up if that helps.
>
> Who is the maintainer? Having a "reviewer only" is confusing to
> everyone involved, as you might have someone who can review patches, but
> no one to actually merge them anywhere?
>
> Not a good situation :(
>

Ok. I can spin up an SPMI tree on kernel.org and make this change to the
MAINTAINERS file (plus whatever tree path I can make). Do you want me to
send you patches in email form as a pull request? I imagine the patch
load will be fairly low.

----8<-----
diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index deaafb617361..3e09630455d4 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -16338,7 +16338,7 @@ F: Documentation/networking/device_drivers/ethernet/toshiba/spider_net.rst
F: drivers/net/ethernet/toshiba/spider_net*

SPMI SUBSYSTEM
-R: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@xxxxxxxxxx>
+M: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@xxxxxxxxxx>
L: linux-arm-msm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
F: Documentation/devicetree/bindings/spmi/
F: drivers/spmi/