linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 6/6] drivers: soc: xilinx: update maintainer of event manager driver

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Message-ID: <d4ee1dc7-d642-4cbc-a2a6-200cd1fcc96f@amd.com>
Date:   Wed, 4 Oct 2023 16:34:54 +0200
From:   Michal Simek <michal.simek@....com>
To:     Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
CC:     Jay Buddhabhatti <jay.buddhabhatti@....com>, <tanmay.shah@....com>,
        <nava.kishore.manne@....com>, <ben.levinsky@....com>,
        <robh@...nel.org>, <dhaval.r.shah@....com>, <marex@...x.de>,
        <izhar.ameer.shaikh@....com>, <arnd@...db.de>,
        <ruanjinjie@...wei.com>, <mathieu.poirier@...aro.org>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 6/6] drivers: soc: xilinx: update maintainer of event
 manager driver



On 10/4/23 15:47, Greg KH wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 04, 2023 at 03:16:15PM +0200, Michal Simek wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 10/4/23 14:17, Greg KH wrote:
>>> On Wed, Oct 04, 2023 at 02:41:16AM -0700, Jay Buddhabhatti wrote:
>>>> Added Michal as a maintainer of event manager driver as Abhyuday is no
>>>> longer in AMD-Xilinx.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Jay Buddhabhatti <jay.buddhabhatti@....com>
>>>> Acked-by: Michal Simek <michal.simek@....com>
>>>> ---
>>>>    MAINTAINERS | 2 +-
>>>>    1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
>>>> index 35977b269d5e..f36fefd7032b 100644
>>>> --- a/MAINTAINERS
>>>> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
>>>> @@ -23672,7 +23672,7 @@ F:	Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/can/xilinx,can.yaml
>>>>    F:	drivers/net/can/xilinx_can.c
>>>>    XILINX EVENT MANAGEMENT DRIVER
>>>> -M:	Abhyuday Godhasara <abhyuday.godhasara@...inx.com>
>>>> +M:	Michal Simek <michal.simek@....com>
>>>
>>> For obvious reasons, we need an ack from Abhyuday.
>>
>> He no longer works for Xilinx/AMD but I have asked him on side channel to
>> reply and let's see if this is going to happen or not.
> 
> Mantainerships follow people, not companies, so if he wants to keep
> being the maintainer, he can be, there's no requirement for him to step
> down.

No doubt about it but normally in these cases people send a patch to start to 
use their new email address which is what didn't happen for quite a long time in 
this case.
I am definitely happy to wait some time if he reacts but if there is no reaction 
for some time we should fix it.

Thanks,
Michal