netdev - Re: [PATCH] Reduce locking in TX path of forcedth driver

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Date:	Sat, 22 Dec 2007 21:13:52 -0500
From:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
To:	Tom Herbert <therbert@...gle.com>
CC:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, Ayaz Abdulla <aabdulla@...dia.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Reduce locking in TX path of forcedth driver

Tom Herbert wrote:
> 
>     (Tom, you failed to CC the maintainer at NVIDIA, please fix...)
> 
>  
> Jeff,
>  
> Please pardon my naivety, but how would determine who the maintainer at 
> NVDIA is?  The MAINTAINERS file lists an Nvidia maintainer only for the 
> framebuffer driver, and I don't see this specified in the source file.

In general, you want to check with

	git log drivers/net/forcedeth.c

in addition to MAINTAINERS, to see who is actively working on the driver.

In this case, the original authors are largely idle (though still 
respond to emails), and NVIDIA has been doing most of the maintenance 
for the past year or more.

MAINTAINERS certainly wants fixing though, if it doesn't reflect the 
current situation.

	Jeff



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