Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Become the stmmac maintainer

[Jakub Kicinski]

On Fri, 10 Jan 2025 18:22:03 +0100 Andrew Lunn wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 10, 2025 at 10:49:43PM +0800, Yanteng Si wrote:
> > I am the author of dwmac-loongson. The patch set was merged several
> > months ago. For a long time hereafter, I don't wish stmmac to remain
> > in an orphan state perpetually. Therefore, if no one is willing to
> > assume the role of the maintainer, I would like to be responsible for
> > the subsequent maintenance of stmmac. Meanwhile, Huacai is willing to
> > become a reviewer.
> > 
> > About myself, I submitted my first kernel patch on January 4th, 2021.
> > I was still reviewing new patches last week, and I will remain active
> > on the mailing list in the future.
> > 
> > Co-developed-by: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Yanteng Si <si.yanteng@xxxxxxxxx>  
> 
> Thanks for volunteering for this. Your experience adding loongson
> support will be useful here. But with a driver of this complexity, and
> the number of different vendors using it, i think it would be good if
> you first established a good reputation for doing the work before we
> add you to the Maintainers. There are a number of stmmac patches on
> the list at the moment, please actually do the job of being a
> Maintainer and spend some time review them.
> 
> A Synopsis engineer has also said he would start doing Maintainer
> work. Hopefully in the end we can add you both to MAINTAINERS.

+1, thanks a lot for volunteering! There are 22 patches for stmmac
pending review in patchwork, so please don't hesitate and start
reviewing and testing.