Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: drm/sti: mark it as Odd Fixes

[Alain Volmat <alain.volmat@foss.st.com>]

Hi Krzysztof, Daniel, and Maxime,

On Fri, Jul 05, 2024 at 03:41:26PM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 05, 2024 at 01:33:38PM +0200, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> > On 05/07/2024 13:22, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> > > On Fri, Jul 05, 2024 at 01:19:50PM GMT, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> > >> On Fri, Jul 05, 2024 at 12:03:56PM +0200, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> > >>> Patches to STI DRM are not being picked up, so even though there is
> > >>> maintainer activity, it seems that these drivers are not being actively
> > >>> looked at.  Reflect this in maintainer status.
> > >>
> > >> Note that since the driver is in drm-misc, other committers can also pick
> > >> up patches and push them. Both Neil and Dimtry have commit rights and
> > >> should be able to pick up your patches for you, if they get stuck.
> > > 
> > > I've applied the patches.
> > > 
> > > I don't think we should merge this one though, a one-off mishap can happen.
> > 
> > Sure.
> > 
> > Folks, maybe then pattern in maintainers should be somehow changed or grew?
> > 
> > The recommendation to all submitters is to use get_maintainers.pl. b4
> > also does it. In this particular case, using get_maintainers.pl or b4
> > will result in patches not being picked up.
> 
> I think get_maintainers.pl is correct: You get the driver maintainer, plus
> drm-misc maintainers as official fallback, plus Dave&me as fallback of
> last resorts. So all correct.
> 
> What's special with the commit rights model is that other committers that
> work all over the subsystem can also pick up the patches for you, so that
> the drm-misc mainters don't become a bottleneck. But the ideal person
> there are drm-misc committers who work in your team or company, or someone
> else where you have some goodwill credits to spend with and ask them for a
> favour. And there's just no way to model that and make sure the script
> gives you the right suggestions.

Many thanks for all your emails and your support.

In the past, I've never committed patches to drm-misc myself and, to be honest,
missed the point that as a drm driver maintainer, I should also do so.
Thanks to recent discussions, I now fully understand how it should be done.

That said, since the volume of drm/sti patches is rather small,
I will from now on request help for commit from drm/stm (Philippe, Yannick, and Raphael)
and drm-misc maintainers in a more "pro-active" way :-)

Sorry for the inconvenience, and once again, many thanks for your support.

Alain


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> -- 
> Daniel Vetter
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