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Message-ID: <31f49da0-403c-40af-b61b-8e05f5b343e8@ieee.org>
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2024 11:29:36 -0500
From: Alex Elder <elder@...e.org>
To: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@...aro.org>,
 Alex Elder <elder@...nel.org>, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
 Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
 Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: MAINTAINERS: Demote Qualcomm IPA to
 "maintained"

On 7/30/24 5:40 AM, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> To the best of my knowledge, Alex Elder is not being paid to support
> Qualcomm IPA networking drivers, so drop the status from "supported" to
> "maintained".
> 
> Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@...aro.org>

I hadn't thought much about the distinction, and it might not
make a lot of difference right now.  But it's true I'm not
being *paid* to maintain the IPA driver (but will continue).

Acked-by: Alex Elder <elder@...nel.org>

> ---
> 
> ... or maybe this should be Odd Fixes?
> ---
>   MAINTAINERS | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index 43e7668aacb0..f1c80c9fc213 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -18452,7 +18452,7 @@ F:	drivers/usb/misc/qcom_eud.c
>   QCOM IPA DRIVER
>   M:	Alex Elder <elder@...nel.org>
>   L:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
> -S:	Supported
> +S:	Maintained
>   F:	drivers/net/ipa/
>   
>   QEMU MACHINE EMULATOR AND VIRTUALIZER SUPPORT