linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] Some small cleanup/fixes for SPMI driver

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Date:   Wed, 14 Oct 2020 14:26:36 -0700
From:   Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...nel.org>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@...nel.org>,
        linuxarm@...wei.com, mauro.chehab@...wei.com,
        John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>,
        Manivannan Sadhasivam <mani@...nel.org>,
        linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] Some small cleanup/fixes for SPMI driver

Quoting Greg Kroah-Hartman (2020-10-03 03:56:53)
> On Fri, Oct 02, 2020 at 02:22:17PM -0700, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> > Quoting Mauro Carvalho Chehab (2020-09-28 23:22:11)
> > > Hi Stephen,
> > > 
> > > While double-checking against yesterday's linux-next, I noticed
> > > that those two patches weren't merge yet. 
> > > 
> > > As you replied to both with your Reviewed-by:, are you expecting
> > > them to be merged via someone's tree, or are you intending
> > > to merge them via your tree?
> > 
> > Per the maintainers file I am a reviewer not a maintainer of SPMI.
> > Usually Greg applies patches here. I can collect patches and send them
> > on up if that helps.
> 
> Who is the maintainer?  Having a "reviewer only" is confusing to
> everyone involved, as you might have someone who can review patches, but
> no one to actually merge them anywhere?
> 
> Not a good situation :(
> 

Ok. I can spin up an SPMI tree on kernel.org and make this change to the
MAINTAINERS file (plus whatever tree path I can make). Do you want me to
send you patches in email form as a pull request? I imagine the patch
load will be fairly low.

----8<-----
diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index deaafb617361..3e09630455d4 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -16338,7 +16338,7 @@ F:	Documentation/networking/device_drivers/ethernet/toshiba/spider_net.rst
 F:	drivers/net/ethernet/toshiba/spider_net*
 
 SPMI SUBSYSTEM
-R:	Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...nel.org>
+M:	Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...nel.org>
 L:	linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org
 F:	Documentation/devicetree/bindings/spmi/
 F:	drivers/spmi/