netdev - Re: [PATCH net 6/9] MAINTAINERS: mtk-eth: remove Felix

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Message-ID: <20210111114530.030a4983@kicinski-fedora-pc1c0hjn.dhcp.thefacebook.com>
Date:   Mon, 11 Jan 2021 11:45:30 -0800
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Felix Fietkau <nbd@....name>
Cc:     Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>, 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 Mon, 11 Jan 2021 20:21:23 +0100 Felix Fietkau wrote:
> 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.

Great, I'll drop this patch from the series. 

Thanks!