Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Update SiFive driver maintainers

From: Conor Dooley
Date: Fri Feb 16 2024 - 14:10:40 EST


On Fri, Feb 16, 2024 at 10:43:31AM -0800, Palmer Dabbelt wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Feb 2024 15:49:11 PST (-0800), samuel.holland@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > Add myself as a maintainer for the various SiFive drivers, since I have
> > been performing cleanup activity on these drivers and reviewing patches
> > to them for a while now. Remove Palmer as a maintainer, as he is focused
> > on overall RISC-V architecture support.
> >
> > Collapse some duplicate entries into the main SiFive drivers entry:
> > - Conor is already maintainer of standalone cache drivers as a whole,
> > and these files are also covered by the "sifive" file name regex.
> > - Paul's git tree has not been updated since 2018, and all file names
> > matching the "fu540" pattern also match the "sifive" pattern.
> > - Green has not been active on the LKML for a couple of years.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Samuel Holland <samuel.holland@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >
> > MAINTAINERS | 29 +++++------------------------
> > 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> > index 73d898383e51..f1bbb0f82664 100644
> > --- a/MAINTAINERS
> > +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> > @@ -1395,6 +1395,7 @@ F: drivers/hwmon/max31760.c
> >
> > ANALOGBITS PLL LIBRARIES
> > M: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > +M: Samuel Holland <samuel.holland@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > S: Supported
> > F: drivers/clk/analogbits/*
> > F: include/linux/clk/analogbits*
> > @@ -16725,6 +16726,7 @@ F: drivers/pci/controller/dwc/*layerscape*
> > PCI DRIVER FOR FU740
> > M: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > M: Greentime Hu <greentime.hu@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > +M: Samuel Holland <samuel.holland@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > L: linux-pci@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > S: Maintained
> > F: Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pci/sifive,fu740-pcie.yaml
> > @@ -19968,36 +19970,15 @@ S: Maintained
> > F: drivers/watchdog/simatic-ipc-wdt.c
> >
> > SIFIVE DRIVERS
> > -M: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > M: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > +M: Samuel Holland <samuel.holland@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > L: linux-riscv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > S: Supported
> > +F: drivers/dma/sf-pdma/
> > N: sifive
> > +K: fu[57]40
> > K: [^@]sifive
> >
> > -SIFIVE CACHE DRIVER
> > -M: Conor Dooley <conor@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > -L: linux-riscv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > -S: Maintained
> > -F: Documentation/devicetree/bindings/cache/sifive,ccache0.yaml
> > -F: drivers/cache/sifive_ccache.c
> > -
> > -SIFIVE FU540 SYSTEM-ON-CHIP
> > -M: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > -M: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > -L: linux-riscv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > -S: Supported
> > -T: git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pjw/sifive.git
> > -N: fu540
> > -K: fu540
> > -
> > -SIFIVE PDMA DRIVER
> > -M: Green Wan <green.wan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > -S: Maintained
> > -F: Documentation/devicetree/bindings/dma/sifive,fu540-c000-pdma.yaml
> > -F: drivers/dma/sf-pdma/
> > -
> > -
> > SILEAD TOUCHSCREEN DRIVER
> > M: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > L: linux-input@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> I'm fine not having to maintain the SiFive drivers, the SOC stuff was never
> really my thing anyway so that's all a bit easier on my end. So
>
> Acked-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> I do end up picking up some random patches though, mostly because stuff
> seems to slip through the cracks. Are you going to have an SOC subtree and
> send stuff over there? That seems more manageable on my end, as it's a bit
> scattered today.

I don't think anything in this patch was "supposed" to go via the riscv
tree as things stood. Probably more a case of harassing subsystem
maintainers (or sending them PRs) than sending things to Arnd I think.

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