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Message-ID: <b1fd85b2-8bee-4c99-a0bf-4ffcc243647b@linaro.org>
Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2024 11:41:12 +0200
From: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@...aro.org>
To: Kalle Valo <kvalo@...nel.org>, Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@...ev.pl>
Cc: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@...tmann.org>,
 Luiz Augusto von Dentz <luiz.dentz@...il.com>,
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 Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>,
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 linux-pm@...r.kernel.org,
 Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 05/16] dt-bindings: net: wireless: describe the ath12k
 PCI module

On 05/04/2024 11:37, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> On 05/04/2024 11:33, Kalle Valo wrote:
>> Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@...ev.pl> writes:
>>
>>> On Mon, Mar 25, 2024 at 3:01 PM Kalle Valo <kvalo@...nel.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@...ev.pl> writes:
>>>>
>>>>> From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@...aro.org>
>>>>>
>>>>> +
>>>>> +maintainers:
>>>>> +  - Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@...aro.org>
>>>>
>>>> IMHO it would be better to have just driver maintainers listed here.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Why? What's wrong with having the author of the bindings in the Cc list?
>>
>> If you want follow the ath12k development and review patches then you
>> can join the ath12k list. I'm not fond of having too many maintainers,
>> it's not really helping anything and just extra work to periodically
>> cleanup the silent maintainers.
>>
>> I would ask the opposite question: why add you as the maintainer?
>> There's not even a single ath12k patch from you, nor I haven't seen you
>> doing any patch review or otherwise helping others related to ath12k.
>> Don't get me wrong, I value the work you do with this important powerseq
>> feature and hopefully we get it into the tree soon. But I don't see
>> adding you as a maintainer at this point.
> 
> This is not a maintainer of driver. This is maintainer of bindings, so
> someone who has hardware, datasheets, knowledge and/or interest in
> keeping the bindings accurate.
> 
> All your arguments above suggest you talk about the driver. This is not
> the point here.
> 

And to clarify: I do not have opinion whether Bartosz is a suitable
person here and whether driver maintainers should be instead or not. I
only want to clarify the purpose of the binding maintainer.

Best regards,
Krzysztof


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