Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Become the stmmac maintainer

[Huacai Chen]

On Sat, Jan 11, 2025 at 10:11 PM Yanteng Si <si.yanteng@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Hi Jakub, Andrew,
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> 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.
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> Okay, thank you for your encouragement.
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> In the following period of time, I will try to review and
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> test the patches of stmmac.
I can help Yanteng to review patches, and I also have some stmmac
patches to be submit.

Huacai

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> Thanks,
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> Yanteng
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