Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] MAINTAINERS: add a maintainer for the SPI NOR subsystem

From: Jagan Teki
Date: Fri Oct 21 2016 - 13:58:14 EST


On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 7:12 PM, Marek Vasut <marex@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 10/19/2016 05:34 PM, Cyrille Pitchen wrote:
>> I would like to volunteer as a maintainer for the SPI NOR part of the MTD
>> subsystem.
>>
>> Over the last months, a significant number of SPI NOR related patches have
>> been submitted, some of them have been reviewed, but very few have finally
>> been merged. Hence, the number of pending SPI NOR related patches continues
>> to increase over the time.
>>
>> Through my work on SPI NOR memories from many manufacturers over the last
>> two years, I've gained a solid understanding of this technology.
>> I've already helped by reviewing patches from other contributors on the
>> mailing list, and would like to help getting those patches integrated by
>> volunteering as a maintainer for this specific area.
>>
>> Boris Brezillon has already stepped up as a maintainer for the NAND
>> sub-subsystem in MTD, and the SPI NOR sub-subsystem could be handled in
>> the same way: I would be reviewing patches touching this area, collecting
>> them and sending pull requests to Brian Norris.
>>
>> Also both Marek Vasut and Richard Weinberger have volunteered as well as
>> maintainers for the SPI NOR subsystem.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Cyrille Pitchen <cyrille.pitchen@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Acked-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Acked-by: Marek Vasut <marek.vasut@xxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Jagan Teki <jteki@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

>
> btw I think I'll need higher privileges in patchwork to fiddle with patches.
>
>> ---
>> ChangeLog:
>>
>> v1 -> v2:
>> - add Marek and Richard as maintainers.
>> - add Acked-by from Boris Brezillon.
>>
>>
>> MAINTAINERS | 12 ++++++++++++
>> 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
>> index 757f9c4b388d..7e63b2015072 100644
>> --- a/MAINTAINERS
>> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
>> @@ -11390,6 +11390,18 @@ W: http://www.st.com/spear
>> S: Maintained
>> F: drivers/clk/spear/
>>
>> +SPI NOR SUBSYSTEM
>> +M: Cyrille Pitchen <cyrille.pitchen@xxxxxxxxx>
>> +M: Marek Vasut <marek.vasut@xxxxxxxxx>
>> +M: Richard Weinberger <richard@xxxxxx>

May be I was little late, but if there is any space for one more or so
I would also like to co-maintain? Currently I am maintaining
SPI/SPI-FLASH for u-boot and working for generic MTD (with u-boot
driver model) + SPI-NOR addition on u-boot which eventually similar
conceptual theory what Linux follows.

thanks!
--
Jagan Teki
Free Software Engineer | www.openedev.com
U-Boot, Linux | Upstream Maintainer
Hyderabad, India.