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Message-ID: <21afd8f4-fce4-65af-4b14-7a461e8a504f@nbd.name>
Date:   Mon, 11 Jan 2021 20:21:23 +0100
From:   Felix Fietkau <nbd@....name>
To:     Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Cc:     davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org, corbet@....net,
        John Crispin <john@...ozen.org>,
        Sean Wang <sean.wang@...iatek.com>,
        Mark Lee <Mark-MC.Lee@...iatek.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 6/9] MAINTAINERS: mtk-eth: remove Felix


On 2021-01-11 18:41, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Jan 2021 21:45:46 -0800 Joe Perches wrote:
>> On Sun, 2021-01-10 at 21:27 -0800, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
>> > Drop Felix from Mediatek Ethernet driver maintainers.
>> > We haven't seen any tags since the initial submission.  
>> []
>> > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS  
>> []
>> > @@ -11165,7 +11165,6 @@ F:	Documentation/devicetree/bindings/dma/mtk-*
>> >  F:	drivers/dma/mediatek/
>> >  
>> > 
>> >  MEDIATEK ETHERNET DRIVER
>> > -M:	Felix Fietkau <nbd@....name>
>> >  M:	John Crispin <john@...ozen.org>
>> >  M:	Sean Wang <sean.wang@...iatek.com>
>> >  M:	Mark Lee <Mark-MC.Lee@...iatek.com>  
>> 
>> I think your script is broken as there are multiple subdirectories
>> for this entry and 
> 
> Quite the opposite, the script intentionally only counts contributions
> only to the code under the MAINTAINERS entry. People lose interest and
> move on to working on other parts of the kernel (or maybe were never
> that interested in maintaining something in the first place?). 
> 
> We want to list folks who are likely to give us reviews.
> 
>> Felix is active.
> 
> Which I tried to state in the commit message as well :)
Sorry for the delayed response. I'm going to submit a bunch of work on
this driver in the near future.
The patches have already been written, just need a bit more time for
testing/review.

- Felix