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

[Richard Weinberger]

On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 11:29 PM, Boris Brezillon
<boris.brezillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Oct 2016 17:34:49 +0200
> Cyrille Pitchen <cyrille.pitchen@xxxxxxxxx> 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>
>> ---
>> 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>
>
> My bad, I think I misunderstood Richard's answer: Richard does not want
> to be a spi-nor maintainer, he was just acking Marek's proposal to be a
> co-maintainer.

Correct. :-)

-- 
Thanks,
//richard