Re: [PATCH V1 for drm-misc-fixes] MAINTAINERS: split hisilicon maintenance and add Yongbang Shi for hibmc-drm matainers

[Yongbang Shi <shiyongbang@huawei.com>]

> ,
>
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, 18 Mar 2026 at 21:01, Yongbang Shi <shiyongbang@huawei.com> wrote:
>> To improve maintainability, split the maintainer information for the hibmc and
>> kirin drivers under the drivers/gpu/drm/hisilicon directory.
>>
>> drivers/gpu/drm/hisilicon/hibmc driver has almost completed feature development
>> based on the new generation HiSilicon BMC chip. It was co-developed by
>> Yongbang Shi, Baihan Li and Lin He. Going forward, this module will be
>> maintained by Yongbang Shi.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Yongbang Shi <shiyongbang@huawei.com>
>> Acked-by: Tao Tian <tiantao6@hisilicon.com>
>> ---
>>   MAINTAINERS | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
>>   1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
>> index d7241695df96..4f8dbadbe70b 100644
>> --- a/MAINTAINERS
>> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
>> @@ -8603,18 +8603,31 @@ S:      Maintained
>>   T:     git https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/misc/kernel.git
>>   F:     drivers/gpu/drm/gma500/
>>
>> -DRM DRIVERS FOR HISILICON
>> -M:     Xinliang Liu <xinliang.liu@linaro.org>
>> -M:     Tian Tao  <tiantao6@hisilicon.com>
>> -R:     Xinwei Kong <kong.kongxinwei@hisilicon.com>
>> -R:     Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@linaro.org>
>> -R:     Yongqin Liu <yongqin.liu@linaro.org>
>> -R:     John Stultz <jstultz@google.com>
>> -L:     dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
>> -S:     Maintained
>> -T:     git https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/misc/kernel.git
>> -F:     Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/hisilicon/
>> -F:     drivers/gpu/drm/hisilicon/
>> +DRM DRIVERS FOR HISILICON HIBMC
>> +M:      Yongbang Shi <shiyongbang@huawei.com>
>> +M:      Xinliang Liu <xinliang.liu@linaro.org>
>> +M:      Tian Tao  <tiantao6@hisilicon.com>
>> +R:      Xinwei Kong <kong.kongxinwei@hisilicon.com>
>> +R:      Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@linaro.org>
>> +R:      Yongqin Liu <yongqin.liu@linaro.org>
>> +R:      John Stultz <jstultz@google.com>
>> +L:      dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
>> +S:      Maintained
>> +T:      git https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/misc/kernel.git
>> +F:      drivers/gpu/drm/hisilicon/hibmc
> Please remove me, Sumit Semwal, Yongqin Liu, and John Stultz from here.
> I'm going to hand over the hibmc DRM driver maintenance to you.
> And if you look at the git log, the other three guys were added here
> for the kirin DRM driver.
> ce1fc502de42 MAINTAINERS: Add Sumit Semwal and Yongqin Liu as reviwers
> for kirin DRM driver
>
>> +
>> +DRM DRIVERS FOR HISILICON KIRIN
>> +M:      Xinliang Liu <xinliang.liu@linaro.org>
>> +M:      Tian Tao  <tiantao6@hisilicon.com>
>> +R:      Xinwei Kong <kong.kongxinwei@hisilicon.com>
>> +R:      Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@linaro.org>
>> +R:      Yongqin Liu <yongqin.liu@linaro.org>
>> +R:      John Stultz <jstultz@google.com>
>> +L:      dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
>> +S:      Maintained
>> +T:      git https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/misc/kernel.git
>> +F:      Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/hisilicon/
>> +F:      drivers/gpu/drm/hisilicon/kirin
> Please remove Tian Tao and Xinwei Kong from here. They are here mainly
> for the hibmc DRM driver.
>
> Once address the above comments, please add my ack:
> Acked-by:  Xinliang Liu <xinliang.liu@linaro.org>
>
> And to be a DRM maintainer, you might need to apply the push
> permission of the drm-misc git repo for pushing the hibmc driver patch
> in the future.
> See the docs below for what DRM-misc is and how to apply the permission:
> https://drm.pages.freedesktop.org/maintainer-tools/committer-drm-misc.html
> https://drm.pages.freedesktop.org/maintainer-tools/drm-misc.html

Ok,Thank you for pointing that out. Thanks, Yongbang.


> Thank you very much for maintaining the hibmc DRM driver.
>
> Best regards,
> Xinliang
>
>>   DRM DRIVERS FOR LIMA
>>   M:     Qiang Yu <yuq825@gmail.com>
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>> 2.33.0
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