From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S938824AbcJXNGp (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Oct 2016 09:06:45 -0400 Received: from eusmtp01.atmel.com ([212.144.249.242]:18392 "EHLO eusmtp01.atmel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932934AbcJXNGo (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Oct 2016 09:06:44 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: add more people to the MTD maintainer team To: Boris Brezillon , Marek Vasut , Richard Weinberger , David Woodhouse , Brian Norris , References: <1477312526-7563-1-git-send-email-boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com> CC: Artem Bityutskiy , , Ezequiel Garcia From: Cyrille Pitchen Message-ID: <9e70dbc8-d234-fdb4-b7a6-0cfd91aca1cf@atmel.com> Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2016 15:06:39 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1477312526-7563-1-git-send-email-boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Originating-IP: [10.145.133.18] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Boris, Le 24/10/2016 à 14:35, Boris Brezillon a écrit : > Brian has been maintaining the MTD subsystem alone for several years > now, and maintaining such a subsystem can really be time consuming. > > Create a maintainer team formed of the most active MTD contributors > to help Brian with this task, which will hopefully improve the > subsystem reactivity. > > Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon Acked-by: Cyrille Pitchen thanks! :) Cyrille > --- > Hi all, > > I'm just trying to summarize what I understood the process would be, > don't hesitate to correct me if I'm wrong. > > For each release we will assign a specific MTD maintainer which will be > responsible for taking MTD core patches and pulling spi-nor and nand PRs > into the MTD tree and eventually send one or several PRs to Linus. > > For fixes that are submitted after -rc1, I usually ask Brian to apply > them directly into the MTD tree (I don't think there's a real need to > prepare spi-nor and nand PRs for fixes), so we can proceed the same > way: ask the maintainer assigned to this release to also take care of > applying fixes and sending PRs to Linus before each -rc. > > If you have other ideas, or would like to proceed differently, don't > hesitate propose them. > > Thanks, > > Boris > --- > MAINTAINERS | 4 ++++ > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS > index 1cd38a7e0064..cbf9583fdbe7 100644 > --- a/MAINTAINERS > +++ b/MAINTAINERS > @@ -7912,6 +7912,10 @@ F: mm/ > MEMORY TECHNOLOGY DEVICES (MTD) > M: David Woodhouse > M: Brian Norris > +M: Boris Brezillon > +M: Marek Vasut > +M: Richard Weinberger > +M: Cyrille Pitchen > L: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org > W: http://www.linux-mtd.infradead.org/ > Q: http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/linux-mtd/list/ >