Re: [PATCH 1/1] MAINTAINERS: Add maintainer for NXP S32G boards

[Shawn Guo]

On Fri, Feb 23, 2024 at 01:29:10PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 23, 2024, at 13:02, Matthias Brugger wrote:
> > On 22/02/2024 12:13, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> >> On 21/02/2024 18:00, Ghennadi Procopciuc wrote:
> >> 
> >> Andreas or Matthias,
> >> Maybe you could change your R: into M: and take s32g patches?
> >> 
> >> If not, then I will ack this patch making Ghennadi the maintainer.
> >> 
> >
> > Normal process would be that Arnd would contact Chester to see if he is 
> > not able 
> > to do the maintainer work any more. In that case maybe Arnd could take 
> > over.
> 
> I was hoping to see a reply from Chester one way or another,
> I see he has been on Cc for the entire thread but not
> chimed in.
> 
> > I'm not saying that Ghennadi won't be able to defend this, if it ever occurs. 
> > Basically because I don't have a good track record of him due to missing 
> > upstream collaboration.
> >
> > I would prefer that Arnd (or Andreas) step up to take the maintainer role. I 
> > already have one and it's difficult for me to find the time to do it in an 
> > acceptable way.
> 
> It appears that we already cover the dts files in the IMX
> entry, whether that is intentional or not:
> 
> ARM/FREESCALE IMX / MXC ARM ARCHITECTURE
> M:      Shawn Guo <shawnguo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> M:      Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> R:      Pengutronix Kernel Team <kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> R:      Fabio Estevam <festevam@xxxxxxxxx>
> R:      NXP Linux Team <linux-imx@xxxxxxx> 
> L:      linux-arm-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (moderated for non-subscribers)
> S:      Maintained
> T:      git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shawnguo/linux.git
> F:      arch/arm/boot/dts/nxp/imx/
> F:      arch/arm/boot/dts/nxp/mxs/
> F:      arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/
> 
> Added everyone there to Cc, having any s32 patches go through
> the imx tree would be the easiest way as far as I'm concerned.
> I've added the maintainers to Cc, let's see what they think.

It's unintentional that IMX entry covers s32 dts files, as they have a
dedicated entry.

ARM/NXP S32G ARCHITECTURE
M:      Chester Lin <chester62515@xxxxxxxxx>
R:      Andreas Färber <afaerber@xxxxxxx>
R:      Matthias Brugger <mbrugger@xxxxxxxx>
R:      NXP S32 Linux Team <s32@xxxxxxx>
L:      linux-arm-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (moderated for non-subscribers)
S:      Maintained
F:      arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/s32g*.dts*

However I'm fine with collecting and sending patches through IMX tree,
if S32G folks help review them.

Shawn