netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v13 11/16] net: dsa: mt7530: use external PCS driver

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Message-ID: <ZBD/PrMM7vxae5gY@shell.armlinux.org.uk>
Date:   Tue, 14 Mar 2023 23:11:58 +0000
From:   "Russell King (Oracle)" <linux@...linux.org.uk>
To:     Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@....com>
Cc:     Arınç ÜNAL <arinc.unal@...nc9.com>,
        Daniel Golle <daniel@...rotopia.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-mediatek@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>,
        Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@...nel.org>,
        Mark Lee <Mark-MC.Lee@...iatek.com>,
        John Crispin <john@...ozen.org>, Felix Fietkau <nbd@....name>,
        AngeloGioacchino Del Regno 
        <angelogioacchino.delregno@...labora.com>,
        Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@...il.com>,
        DENG Qingfang <dqfext@...il.com>,
        Landen Chao <Landen.Chao@...iatek.com>,
        Sean Wang <sean.wang@...iatek.com>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
        Bjørn Mork <bjorn@...k.no>,
        Frank Wunderlich <frank-w@...lic-files.de>,
        Alexander Couzens <lynxis@...0.eu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v13 11/16] net: dsa: mt7530: use external PCS
 driver

On Wed, Mar 15, 2023 at 12:34:13AM +0200, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> But the mt7530 maintainers have gone
> pretty silent as of late, and I, as a fallback maintainer with no
> hardware, have had to send 2 bug fixes to the mt7530 and 1 to the
> mtk_eth_soc driver in the past month, to address the reports.

That's an under-statement, and not just the DSA driver, but the
ethernet driver too. It's been years trying to get the attention
of anyone to sort out the pre-March 2020 crud in this driver, and
no one seems to care, and none of the alleged maintainers bother
replying.

I don't believe anyone who claims to be a maintainer for either the
DSA or Ethernet driver has commented on any of my patches or provided
any review.

In my mind, these drivers do not have maintainers.

What I have to resort to is spotting potential victims^wtesters on
the mailing lists to try stuff out for me - which is really not
how this should work.

It seems to me that this is the old "chuck code over the wall into
mainline, then do a runner" approach to kernel maintenance.

So, honestly, the sooner these drivers get proper maintainers, the
better - and if someone wants to step up to do that amongst those
who are involved in the current work, I'm all for that - it would
be a hell of a lot better than the current situation.

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