netdev - Re: [PATCH net 1/9] MAINTAINERS: altx: move Jay Cliburn to CREDITS

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Message-ID: <20210111183914.2b18ac82@kicinski-fedora-pc1c0hjn.dhcp.thefacebook.com>
Date:   Mon, 11 Jan 2021 18:39:14 -0800
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Chris Snook <chris.snook@...il.com>
Cc:     "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, corbet@....net,
        Jay Cliburn <jcliburn@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 1/9] MAINTAINERS: altx: move Jay Cliburn to CREDITS

On Sun, 10 Jan 2021 21:36:24 -0800 Chris Snook wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 9:28 PM Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org> wrote:
> > Jay was not active in recent years and does not have plans
> > to return to work on ATLX drivers.
> >
> > Subsystem ATLX ETHERNET DRIVERS
> >   Changes 20 / 116 (17%)
> >   Last activity: 2020-02-24
> >   Jay Cliburn <jcliburn@...il.com>:
> >   Chris Snook <chris.snook@...il.com>:
> >     Tags ea973742140b 2020-02-24 00:00:00 1
> >   Top reviewers:
> >     [4]: andrew@...n.ch
> >     [2]: kuba@...nel.org
> >     [2]: o.rempel@...gutronix.de
> >   INACTIVE MAINTAINER Jay Cliburn <jcliburn@...il.com>
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
> 
> I'm overdue to be moved to CREDITS as well. I never had alx hardware,
> I no longer have atl1c or atl1e hardware, and I haven't powered on my
> atl1 or atl2 hardware in years.

Your call, obviously, but having someone familiar with the code and the
hardware look at the patches and provide Ack or Review tags is in
itself very, very helpful. There is no requirement to actually test any
of the changes or develop new features.