RE: [PATCH v3 6/6] MAINTAINERS: add entry for the RTL8723B rtw88 driver

[Ping-Ke Shih]

Luka Gejak <luka.gejak@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> September 22, 2026 at 03:28, "Ping-Ke Shih" <pkshih@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> >
> > Luka Gejak <luka.gejak@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > September 22, 2026 at 1:35 AM, "Jeff Johnson" <jeff.johnson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >  On 9/21/2026 11:14 AM, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > >
> > >  >
> > >  > On Mon, 2026-09-21 at 16:49 +0000, Luka Gejak wrote:
> > >  >
> > >  > >
> > >  > > It is supposed to work in the same way it works for other driver
> > >  > > maintainers. I would review patches and provide my acked by or
> > >  > > reviewed by them and Ping-Ke would apply them to his rtw-next branch.
> > >  > >
> > >  >
> > >  > I don't think we have a lot of folks below the driver maintainers who s
> > >  > end me pull requests (except Toke maybe?) - but as long as I don't need
> > >  > to deal with it I'm happy, you can figure it out between yourselves :)
> > >  >
> > >  For ath.git there are sub-maintainers for ath5k (Multiple), ath9k (Toke),
> > >  carl9170 (Christian), and wcn36xx (Loic).
> > >
> > >  Toke has a linux-wireless patchwork account so the ath9k patches are initially
> > >  assigned to him in patchwork, and he Acks on the list and assigns the
> > >  patchwork records to me when he approves patches.
> > >
> > >  For the others the maintainers just Ack on the list, and I take them from there.
> > >
> > >  So the question is do how do you want to handle this in patchwork?
> > >
> > >  /jeff
> > >
> > >
> > >  What do you think makes more sense here: patchwork delegate
> > >  access like Toke has for ath9k, or on list ack based? I'd lean
> > >  towards delegate access if it's not a big ask on your end, but
> > >  happy to go with whatever works best operationally for you.
> > >
> > I'm happy that people join rtw88 reviewers.
> >
> > Personally I prefer people give Reviewed-by tag to the patches, and
> > I can myself take the patches by patchwork state and send pull-request
> > to Johannes.
> >
> > With additional flows of patchwork and pull-request, it looks much
> > hard to maintain, since I don't think there will be a lot of patches of
> > drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/rtw8723b*.{c,h}
> >
> > By the way, if you are interested in rtw88, maybe add a "R:"
> > entry to be a reviewer of rtw88?
> >
> > Ping-Ke
> >
> 
> Hi Ping-Ke,
> 
> I agree that approach is simpler and I am perfectly fine with
> it, if it works better for you. And about being rtw88 reviewer: I
> would happily take that role, so I will send a separate patch
> outside this series.

I think you can change the content of this patch to add yourself to
rtw88 reviewer. No need other patch. 

In fact, even you aren't in list of MAINTAINERS, you can still review
patches. Just subscribe linux-wireless mailing list (I think you did),
and reply patches you have reviewed. 

Ping-Ke