Re: [PATCH net] net: ethernet: qualcomm: ppe: Demote from supported and fix maintainer addresses

[Jie Luo]

On 6/23/2026 7:31 PM, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 23, 2026 at 05:42:34PM +0800, Jie Luo wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 6/23/2026 4:10 PM, Andrew Lunn wrote:
>>>> Driver is not supported - in terms of how netdev understands supported
>>>> commitment - if maintainer does not care to receive the patches for its
>>>> code, so demote it to "maintained" to reflect true status.
>>>
>>> Maybe "Orphan" would be better, if the listed Maintainer is not doing
>>> any Maintainer work?
>>>
>>> 	   Andrew	   
>>
>> Hello Andrew, Krzysztof,
>> I will continue to maintain the listed drivers, so their status can
>> remain Supported.
> 
> Please understand that being a Maintainer requires that you respond to
> patches and questions about this driver, give Reviewed-by:, ask for
> patches to be changed etc. If you don't respond, ideally with 2 to 3
> days, the driver will be set to Orphaned.
> 
> If you want to maintain the Supported status, we can help you set up
> the needed CI system, and get it registered so it reports the results.
> 
>     Andrew

Thank you Andrew, Krzysztof, for the clarification on what "Supported"
status entails and for the offer to help with CI setup. I would very
much appreciate the community's help in getting the CI system set up
and registered for this driver. In the mean time we will also look at
resources internally within Qualcomm, to understand how to support
testing using kernelCI/netdevCI for IPQ SoC. This will help us test
the driver continuously as well.

I fully understand and accept the maintainer responsibilities for this
driver, and commit to the below:
- Responding to patches and questions in a timely manner.
- Providing review comments and requesting changes where appropriate,
  and providing Reviewed-by tags when needed.

I would also like to take a moment to provide an update on our current
efforts for IPQ SoC, if it can be of help. We have already re-started
our efforts for the drivers and are currently actively working to extend
the IPQ drivers to support more functionality and for newer SoC support
for same family. We plan to post these updates to the current drivers
once the review window reopens.

We feel maintaining the "Supported" status is appropriate and reflects
our genuine long-term commitment to IPQ SoC networking drivers in Linux
kernel. We request you to retain the current status for this driver if
acceptable.

Regarding the email ID change, we had attempted to rectify the
MAINTAINERS file a few months ago based on recommendation given
internally (please see below thread), however agree that such an update
in documentation is also required.

https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250903-maintainer_update-v1-1-2183fd2a3c44@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/