Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Become the stmmac maintainer

From: Yanteng Si
Date: Sat Jan 11 2025 - 09:11:44 EST


Hi Jakub, Andrew,

On 1/11/25 08:54, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
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.

Okay, thank you for your encouragement.

In the following period of time, I will try to review and

test the patches of stmmac.


Thanks,

Yanteng