netdev - Re: [PATCH v3] MAINTAINERS: Add new maintainers to Redpine driver

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Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2023 14:34:18 +0200
From: Marek Vasut <marex@...x.de>
To: Jérôme Pouiller <jerome.pouiller@...abs.com>,
 Kalle Valo <kvalo@...nel.org>,
 Ganapathi Kondraju <ganapathi.kondraju@...abs.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, Amitkumar Karwar <amitkarwar@...il.com>,
 Amol Hanwate <amol.hanwate@...abs.com>, Angus Ainslie <angus@...ea.ca>,
 Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>,
 Martin Fuzzey <martin.fuzzey@...wbird.group>,
 Martin Kepplinger <martink@...teo.de>,
 Narasimha Anumolu <narasimha.anumolu@...abs.com>,
 Sebastian Krzyszkowiak <sebastian.krzyszkowiak@...i.sm>,
 Shivanadam Gude <shivanadam.gude@...abs.com>,
 Siva Rebbagondla <siva8118@...il.com>,
 Srinivas Chappidi <srinivas.chappidi@...abs.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] MAINTAINERS: Add new maintainers to Redpine driver

On 6/9/23 17:10, Jérôme Pouiller wrote:
> Hi Marek,

Hi,

> On Monday 5 June 2023 11:59:41 CEST Marek Vasut wrote:
>> On 6/1/23 12:47, Jérôme Pouiller wrote:
>>> On Saturday 27 May 2023 23:12:16 CEST Marek Vasut wrote:
>>>> On 2/27/23 11:28, Kalle Valo wrote:
>>>>> Ganapathi Kondraju <ganapathi.kondraju@...abs.com> writes:
> [...]
>>>> Has there been any progress on improving this driver maintainership
>>>> since this patch ?
>>>
>>> Hello Marek,
>>>
>>> The situation is still blurry. There is a willing to maintain this driver
>>> (and several people would like I take care of that). However, the effort
>>> to properly support this driver is still unknown (in fact, I have not yet
>>> started to really look at the situation).
>>
>> I have to admit, the aforementioned paragraph is quite disturbing,
>> considering that this patch adds 6 maintainers, is already in V3, and so
>> far it is not even clear to silabs how much effort it would be to
>> maintain driver for their own hardware, worse, silabs didn't even check.
>> What is the point of adding those maintainers then ?
> 
> 
> I think Ganapathi just wanted to give a list of people to keep in Cc in
> case there were some discussions about this driver. The status change was
> probably not what he wanted to do.

Do I understand this correctly that there is no intention to actually 
improve the upstream support from RSI side ?

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