linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: add Denis Benato as maintainer for asus notebooks

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Message-Id: <E7993E86-3805-4E93-A714-0D4A33FBA759@ljones.dev>
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2025 10:44:51 +0200
From: luke@...nes.dev
To: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@...ux.intel.com>
Cc: "Mario Limonciello (AMD) (kernel.org)" <superm1@...nel.org>,
 Corentin Chary <corentin.chary@...il.com>,
 Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
 Hans de Goede <hansg@...nel.org>,
 Denis Benato <benato.denis96@...il.com>,
 LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
 platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org,
 Armin Wolf <W_Armin@....de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: add Denis Benato as maintainer for asus
 notebooks



> On 6 Oct 2025, at 10:31, Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@...ux.intel.com> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 3 Oct 2025, Mario Limonciello (AMD) (kernel.org) wrote:
>> On 10/3/2025 1:58 PM, Hans de Goede wrote:
>>> On 3-Oct-25 8:49 PM, Denis Benato wrote:
>>>> Add myself as maintainer for "ASUS NOTEBOOKS AND EEEPC ACPI/WMI EXTRAS
>>>> DRIVERS" as suggested by Hans de Goede and Armin Wolf.
>>>> 
>>>> Signed-off-by: Denis Benato <benato.denis96@...il.com>
>>>> Link:
>>>> https://lore.kernel.org/all/8128cd6b-50e3-464c-90c2-781f61c3963e@gmail.com
>>> 
>>> Thanks, patch looks good to me:
>>> 
>>> Reviewed-by: Hans de Goede <hansg@...nel.org>
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> 
>>> Hans
>> 
>> Reviewed-by: Mario Limonciello (AMD) <superm1@...nel.org>
>> 
>> Luke,
>> 
>> You are planning to step down from maintainer too, right?  Can you send a last
>> patch doing that too?  Or let Denis send one and Ack that?

I will eventually step down yes. Denis asked me to stay on for the moment.

>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> ---
>>>>  MAINTAINERS | 1 +
>>>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>>>> 
>>>> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
>>>> index 156fa8eefa69..81bcb934748d 100644
>>>> --- a/MAINTAINERS
>>>> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
>>>> @@ -3841,6 +3841,7 @@ F: drivers/hwmon/asus-ec-sensors.c
>>>>  ASUS NOTEBOOKS AND EEEPC ACPI/WMI EXTRAS DRIVERS
>>>>  M: Corentin Chary <corentin.chary@...il.com>
>>>>  M: Luke D. Jones <luke@...nes.dev>
>>>> +M: Denis Benato <benato.denis96@...il.com>
>>>>  L: platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org
>>>>  S: Maintained
>>>>  W: https://asus-linux.org/
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Unrelated to the patch itself, I'm more wondering if Corentin Chary 
> <corentin.chary@...il.com> is still around as I don't recall ever hearing 
> anything from that address in any context. The latest email from that 
> address lore.kernel.org could find is from 2017.
> 
> Maybe we should remove that address from the maintainers list?

I’d been wondering if that should be done. Though never was sure of the process or if that was okay.