Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] MAINTAINERS: add entry for T-HEAD RISC-V SoC

[Conor Dooley <conor@kernel.org>]

On 11 May 2023 01:54:19 IST, Yixun Lan <dlan@gentoo.org> wrote:
>Hi Yangtao:
>
>On 04:44 Thu 11 May     , Yangtao Li wrote:
>> From: Jisheng Zhang <jszhang@kernel.org>
>> 
>> Jisheng:
>> I would like to temporarily maintain the T-HEAD RISC-V SoC support.
>> 
>> Yangtao:
>> Wei and me would like to help support and maintain too.
>> 
>> Cc: Icenowy Zheng <uwu@icenowy.me>
>> Cc: Wei Fu <wefu@redhat.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Jisheng Zhang <jszhang@kernel.org>
>> Signed-off-by: Yangtao Li <frank.li@vivo.com>
>> ---
>> v2:
>> -add Yangtao and Wei
>>  MAINTAINERS | 8 ++++++++
>>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
>> 
>> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
>> index 7e0b87d5aa2e..592769efd1d1 100644
>> --- a/MAINTAINERS
>> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
>> @@ -18155,6 +18155,14 @@ T:	git https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/conor/linux.git/
>>  F:	Documentation/devicetree/bindings/riscv/
>>  F:	arch/riscv/boot/dts/
>>  
>> +RISC-V T-HEAD SoC SUPPORT
>> +M:	Jisheng Zhang <jszhang@kernel.org>
>> +M:	Wei Fu <wefu@redhat.com>
>> +M:	Yangtao Li <frank.li@vivo.com>
>> +L:	linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org
>> +S:	Maintained
>> +F:	arch/riscv/boot/dts/thead/
>> +
>>  RNBD BLOCK DRIVERS
>>  M:	Md. Haris Iqbal <haris.iqbal@ionos.com>
>>  M:	Jack Wang <jinpu.wang@ionos.com>
>> -- 
>> 2.34.1
>> 
>
>Don't get yourself wrong, no objection personally..
>
>But as I saw, none of contributors has affinity with T-Head, so no idea how this will
>work well.. always better to take over maintainership after show enough commitment..
>
>Anyway, raise your comments, and I'd more than happy to be proved I'm wrong
>

They're more than welcome to be the maintainers IMO.
Being the vendor is no guarantee of commitment either!
Guo Ren, who does work for T-Head, was the one who suggested that
Wei Fu would be a good person to add here.
If they don't end up maintaining it, it'll fall back to me anyway & I'd prefer
to give people a chance.

Thanks,
Conor.