Re: [PATCH v2] MAINTAINERS: Hand MIPS over to Thomas

[Philippe Mathieu-DaudÃ]

On Sat, Feb 22, 2020 at 6:04 PM Paul Burton <paulburton@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> My time with MIPS the company has reached its end, and so at best I'll
> have little time spend on maintaining arch/mips/.
>
> Ralf last authored a patch over 2 years ago, the last time he committed
> one is even further back & activity was sporadic for a while before
> that. The reality is that he isn't active.
>
> Having a new maintainer with time to do things properly will be
> beneficial all round. Thomas Bogendoerfer has been involved in MIPS
> development for a long time & has offered to step up as maintainer, so
> add Thomas and remove myself & Ralf from the MIPS entry.
>
> Ralf already has an entry in CREDITS to honor his contributions, so this
> just adds one for me.
>
> Signed-off-by: Paul Burton <paulburton@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-mips@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> ---
> Changes in v2:
> - Merge the 2 patches & add Thomas :)
> - Drop the link to Ralf's git tree
> ---
>  CREDITS     | 5 +++++
>  MAINTAINERS | 6 ++----
>  2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/CREDITS b/CREDITS
> index a97d3280a627..032b5994f476 100644
> --- a/CREDITS
> +++ b/CREDITS
> @@ -567,6 +567,11 @@ D: Original author of Amiga FFS filesystem
>  S: Orlando, Florida
>  S: USA
>
> +N: Paul Burton
> +E: paulburton@xxxxxxxxxx
> +W: https://pburton.com
> +D: MIPS maintainer 2018-2020
> +
>  N: Lennert Buytenhek
>  E: kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>  D: Original (2.4) rewrite of the ethernet bridging code
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index a0d86490c2c6..86e70a216ab1 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -11114,14 +11114,12 @@ S:    Maintained
>  F:     drivers/usb/image/microtek.*
>
>  MIPS
> -M:     Ralf Baechle <ralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> -M:     Paul Burton <paulburton@xxxxxxxxxx>
> +M:     Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>  L:     linux-mips@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>  W:     http://www.linux-mips.org/
> -T:     git git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/linux.git
>  T:     git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mips/linux.git
>  Q:     http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/project/linux-mips/list/
> -S:     Supported
> +S:     Maintained
>  F:     Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mips/
>  F:     Documentation/mips/
>  F:     arch/mips/
> --
> 2.25.1
>

Thank you Paul for your MIPS work.
Thank you Thomas for stepping in :)

FWIW:
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudà <f4bug@xxxxxxxxx>