netdev - Re: [linux-nfc] [PATCH net-next] MAINTAINERS: Update maintainer for SAMSUNG S3FWRN5 NFC

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Date:   Tue, 15 Dec 2020 12:01:34 +0900
From:   Bongsu Jeon <bongsu.jeon2@...il.com>
To:     Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@...nel.org>
Cc:     linux-nfc@...ts.01.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Bongsu Jeon <bongsu.jeon@...sung.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-nfc] [PATCH net-next] MAINTAINERS: Update maintainer for
 SAMSUNG S3FWRN5 NFC

On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 12:44 AM Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 09:28:23PM +0900, Bongsu Jeon wrote:
> > From: Bongsu Jeon <bongsu.jeon@...sung.com>
> >
> > add an email to look after the SAMSUNG NFC driver.
>
> Hi Bongsu,
>
> Review and testing is always appreciated. However before adding an entry
> to Maintainers, I would prefer to see some activity in maintainer-like
> tasks. So far there are none:
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/?q=f%3A%22Bongsu+Jeon%22
>
> Contributing patches is not the same as maintenance. Please subscribe to
> relevant mailing lists and devote effort for improving other people
> code.
>
> We had too many maintainers from many companies which did not perform
> actual maintainership for long time and clearly that's not the point.
>
> Best regards,
> Krzysztof

Ok, I  understand it.