Re: clk maintenance [Was: Re: [PATCH v1] clk: Use named initializers for platform_device_id arrays]

[Chen-Yu Tsai]

On Sun, Jul 19, 2026 at 1:17 AM Uwe Kleine-König (The Capable Hub)
<u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hello Brian, Michael and Stephen,
>
> [I trimmed recipients as the new topic isn't related only to my patch
> under discussion in this thread.]
>
> On Fri, Jul 17, 2026 at 10:57:54AM -0400, Brian Masney wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 17, 2026 at 11:51:17AM +0200, Uwe Kleine-König (The Capable Hub) wrote:
> > > Do you still have it on your radar?
> >
> > I sent Stephen a pull on June 29th for stuff that I felt was missed during
> > the last merge window and I included 4 of your patches in that pull:
> >
> > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-clk/akLzCVzbMbUsgDda@xxxxxxxxxx/T/#u
> >
> > I haven't heard from Stephen yet. There's 2-3 other pulls waiting as
> > well.
>
> I only occasionally have clk patches, but my impression is that getting
> feedback takes quite long and without Brian's efforts also things would
> get lost. (Thanks Brian for picking up my stuff!)
>
> Looking at the current maintainers:
>
>         $ git log --format=fuller --since 2026-01-01 next-20260717 drivers/clk | grep -E 'Boyd|Turquette' | sort | uniq -c
>               8     Acked-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@xxxxxxxxxx>
>              28 Author:     Stephen Boyd <sboyd@xxxxxxxxxx>
>               3     Cc: Michael Turquette <mturquette@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>               3     Cc: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@xxxxxxxxxx>
>              81 Commit:     Stephen Boyd <sboyd@xxxxxxxxxx>
>               1     Pull clk fix from Stephen Boyd:
>               3     Pull clk updates from Stephen Boyd:
>              54     Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@xxxxxxxxxx>
>         linux$ git log --format=oneline --since 2026-01-01 next-20260717 drivers/clk | wc -l
>         453
>
> (Maybe that is because Stephen cares for the core mostly and arch
> maintainers merge stuff about their clks themselves?)

Mostly yes. However some platform maintainers don't pick up patches,
which leads to missed patches.

And I think this really depends on the platform. If that platform has
its own clk library, then I think the platform maintainer needs to do
most of the reviewing anyway.

> The last commit where Michael Turquette was actively involved is from
> 2021 (a331659e32718b31f3a304d7797a77d31610468c) which is also the last
> mail from him on the clk list (see
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-clk/?q=f%3ATurquette).
>
> I only observe from the side line, but with the relevance of the clk
> subsystem I feel maintenance is underpowered today.
>
> Is it time for Michael to step down? Would Brian be ready to become a
> full maintainer? Is there a need for more reviewers? Any volunteers to
> step up?

They already discussed this last year at Plumbers. I believe Brian will
ramp up by reviewing.


ChenYu