linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v6 3/8] MAINTAINERS: add maintainer for the Ka-Ro tx8p-ml81 COM module

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Date: Fri, 9 May 2025 09:03:33 +0000
From: Maud Spierings | GOcontroll <maudspierings@...ontroll.com>
To: Shawn Guo <shawnguo2@...h.net>
CC: Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>, Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk+dt@...nel.org>,
	Conor Dooley <conor+dt@...nel.org>, Shawn Guo <shawnguo@...nel.org>, Sascha
 Hauer <s.hauer@...gutronix.de>, Pengutronix Kernel Team
	<kernel@...gutronix.de>, Fabio Estevam <festevam@...il.com>,
	"devicetree@...r.kernel.org" <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"imx@...ts.linux.dev" <imx@...ts.linux.dev>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 3/8] MAINTAINERS: add maintainer for the Ka-Ro
 tx8p-ml81 COM module

On 5/9/25 10:58, Shawn Guo wrote:
> On Fri, May 09, 2025 at 08:42:38AM +0000, Maud Spierings | GOcontroll wrote:
>> On 5/9/25 10:17, Shawn Guo wrote:
>>> On Thu, Apr 17, 2025 at 12:14:04PM +0200, Maud Spierings via B4 Relay wrote:
>>>> From: Maud Spierings <maudspierings@...ontroll.com>
>>>>
>>>> Add GOcontroll as unofficial maintainers of the Ka-Ro tx8p-ml81 COM
>>>> module bindings.
>>>>
>>>> This support is not officially done by Ka-Ro electronics, if they at
>>>> some point will supporting mainline, this should be changed to them.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Maud Spierings <maudspierings@...ontroll.com>
>>>> ---
>>>>    MAINTAINERS | 6 ++++++
>>>>    1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
>>>> index b5acf50fc6af4322dec0dad2169b46c6a1903e3c..1ca022081bcf564c8ec91fb6431570045495ec23 100644
>>>> --- a/MAINTAINERS
>>>> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
>>>> @@ -12779,6 +12779,12 @@ S:	Maintained
>>>>    F:	Documentation/hwmon/k8temp.rst
>>>>    F:	drivers/hwmon/k8temp.c
>>>>    
>>>> +KA-RO TX8P COM MODULE
>>>> +M:	Maud Spierings <maudspierings@...ontroll.com>
>>>> +L:	imx@...ts.linux.dev
>>>> +S:	Maintained
>>>> +F:	arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/imx8mp-tx8p-ml81.dtsi
>>>> +
>>>
>>> I'm not fond of such changes, as MAINTAINERS file could be bloated
>>> quickly by individual DTS.
>>
>> Is there some way you would prefer to see it? I don't really know of a better
>> way.
> 
> There was some discussion about getting ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl pick
> up the Author: field (in DTS header area).  But I'm not sure where it
> ended.

I feel like that would be wrong in this situation too, it would pull in
Lothar Wassmann, who has nothing to do with me upstreaming this. I have
seen him around on the mailing list but given that Ka-Ro are not
upstreaming these themselves, I feel it would be weird to pull him into
this.

-- 
Met vriendelijke groeten/with kind regards,
Maud Spierings