On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 2:40 PM Boris BrezillonThank you for reviewing our patches and your time...
<boris.brezillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, 16 Apr 2020 15:26:51 +0300A lot of the pre-acquisition code for lantiq was contributed by Hauke
Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 3:03 PM Boris BrezillonWell, that's what we do for new drivers, but the xway driver has been
<boris.brezillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, 16 Apr 2020 19:38:03 +0800Don't we rather insist to have a MAINTAINERS record for new code to
Note that the NAND subsystem is full of unmaintained legacy drivers, so
every time we see someone who could help us get rid or update one of
them we have to take this opportunity.
avoid (or delay at least) the fate of the legacy drivers?
added in 2012 and the policy was not enforced at that time. BTW, that
goes for most of the legacy drivers in have in the NAND subsystems
(some of them even predate the git era).
To be clear, I just checked and there's no official maintainer for this
driver. Best option would be to Cc the original author and contributors
who proposed functional changes to the code, as well as the MIPS
maintainers (Xway is a MIPS platform).
Mehrtens and John Crispin. There was an intermediate generation of
MIPS SoCs with patches posted for review by Intel in 2018 (presumably
by the same organizatiob), but those were never resubmitted after v2
and never merged:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mips/20180803030237.3366-1-songjun.wu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
Arnd