linux-kernel - Re: MaxLinear, please maintain your drivers was Re: [PATCH] leds: lgm: fix gpiolib dependency

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Date:   Tue, 16 Mar 2021 09:19:19 +0000
From:   Rahul Tanwar <rtanwar@...linear.com>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...nel.org>
CC:     Cheol Yong Kim <ckim@...linear.com>, Qiming Wu <qwu@...linear.com>,
        Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>,
        Adam Borowski <kilobyte@...band.pl>,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>,
        Dan Murphy <dmurphy@...com>,
        "linux-leds@...r.kernel.org" <linux-leds@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        John Crispin <john@...ozen.org>,
        Hauke Mehrtens <hmehrtens@...linear.com>,
        Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@...ke-m.de>,
        the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: MaxLinear, please maintain your drivers was Re: [PATCH] leds:
 lgm: fix gpiolib dependency

Hi Arnd,

On 11/3/2021 6:01 pm, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> This email was sent from outside of MaxLinear.
> 
> On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 6:48 AM Rahul Tanwar <rtanwar@...linear.com> wrote:
>  > Hi Arnd, Pavel,
>  >
>  > Sorry for the hiccup due to missing email address in the email chain 
> during the ownership transition.
>  >
>  > Henceforth, I will be the maintainer for all kernel drivers/code 
> related to “formerly Intel’s now MaxLinear’s” Lightning Mountain SoC.
>  >
>  > Please send any Lightning Mountain SoC related issues email to Rahul 
> Tanwar (rtanwar@...linear.com) and I will ensure that I address the 
> issues in a timely manner.
> 
> Thank you for the reply and for stepping up as maintainer.
> 
> I tend to merge updates to the MAINTAINERS file as bugfixes the file 
> contains
> the correct addresses at all times. If you sent an update for this to
> soc@...nel.org,
> I'll get that merged.
> 
> Since I think this is an x86 platform, you can alternatively send the 
> same patch
> to the x86 maintainers.
>


Haven't sent any patch to update MAINTAINERS file yet. Thanks for your 
suggestion. I will take it up soon..


> Are you also planning to maintain or add drivers for some of the older SoC
> generations from Ti/Lantiq/Infineon/Intel that are now owned by MaxLinear?
> It would be good to be explicit about which ones of these you are working
> with. From what I can tell, the arch/mips/lantiq/ platform is only for 
> fairly
> old designs (xrx200 and older), while support for the slightly later mips
> and x86 based chips was submitted a few years ago but never merged.
> 

Thank you for asking. At this point of time, our focus for upstreaming 
and maintaining is on LGM(Lightning Mountain) SoC.

Regards,
Rahul

>  > I will wait for more details on your fix request for LGM LED driver. 
> Thanks.
> 
>  From my side, only an Ack on the original bugfix I sent [1] is needed, but
> Pavel had other concerns about the driver. I expect he will follow up on 
> those
> with you.
> 
> Arnd
> 
> [1] 
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210308153052.2353885-1-arnd@kernel.org/ 
> <https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210308153052.2353885-1-arnd@kernel.org>