Re: [PATCH net] MAINTAINERS: Add myself for stmmac ethernet driver maintainance

[Jakub Kicinski]

On Wed, 22 Jul 2026 16:21:24 +0200 Maxime Chevallier wrote:
> The stmmac driver based on Synopsys' dwmac IP is used in a very wide
> variety of SoCs and is currently very actively used and contributed to.
> 
> It has been orphaned in January 2025 after the previous maintainers
> became inactive, but Russell King was providing very valuable reviews
> and fixes for the driver at that point.
> 
> Now we're seeing more and more activity on the driver, but are lacking
> people to test and review contributions to both glue drivers as well as
> core stmmac code.
> 
> I have access to some variety of stmmac-based platforms such as socfpga
> CycloneV, imx8mp, some Allwinner SoCs and stm32mp1xx boards that I can
> run regression tests on, and I'm offering to step-up as a maintainer for
> driver, for the time being at least.
> 
> Let's hope other people will eventually join this effort.

Thanks a lot for taking this on :)