Re: [PATCH v4 1/1] MAINTAINERS: add polarfire rng, pci and clock drivers

From: Palmer Dabbelt
Date: Thu Jun 02 2022 - 18:06:34 EST


On Thu, 02 Jun 2022 09:31:52 PDT (-0700), helgaas@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Thu, Jun 02, 2022 at 04:39:08AM +0000, Conor.Dooley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
On 02/06/2022 02:55, Palmer Dabbelt wrote:

> I'm adding a bunch of subsystem maintainers just to check again. I
> don't have any problem with it, just not really a RISC-V thing and don't
> wan to make a mess. I've stashed it over at palmer/pcsoc-maintainers
> for now.
>
> Sorry if I'm being overly pedantic about this one...

I don't mind. Maybe this should go via Andrew next cycle or w/e?
There's obviously no hurry etc

My turn to be overly pedantic :) IMHO there's no benefit in delaying
MAINTAINERS updates. There's zero risk, and delaying only means
people will miss out on bug reports and other things they should learn
about.

If by "delay" you mean wait until a merge window, then I definately agree -- that's just more cofusing for folks to have defacto maintainership outside of the tree, might as well get these in. It's not like a MAINTAINERS update is going to introduce a regression or anything.

I'm just delaying because I just want to wait to make sure folks from the subsystems are OK with the updates, as these aren't really anything to do with RISC-V so it's not really my decision to make.