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Message-ID: <3f987064-c955-4554-81fa-03b21dfa51e8@ieee.org>
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2024 11:31:44 -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 11:29 AM, Alex Elder wrote:
> 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>

Oh, and to be clear, please keep it "Maintained" and not
"Odd Fixes".

					-Alex

> 
> 
>> ---
>>
>> ... 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
>