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Message-ID: <f7512560-69d6-41b6-a85e-70e25b17153c@foss.st.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2025 18:06:45 +0100
From: Alexandre TORGUE <alexandre.torgue@...s.st.com>
To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, <davem@...emloft.net>
CC: <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, <edumazet@...gle.com>, <pabeni@...hat.com>,
        <andrew+netdev@...n.ch>, <joabreu@...opsys.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 4/8] MAINTAINERS: mark stmmac ethernet as an Orphan

Hi Jakub

On 1/6/25 17:54, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> I tried a couple of things to reinvigorate the stmmac maintainers
> over the last few years but with little effect. The maintainers
> are not active, let the MAINTAINERS file reflect reality.
> The Synopsys IP this driver supports is very popular we need
> a solid maintainer to deal with the complexity of the driver.
> 
> gitdm missingmaints says:
> 
> Subsystem STMMAC ETHERNET DRIVER
>    Changes 344 / 978 (35%)
>    Last activity: 2020-05-01
>    Alexandre Torgue <alexandre.torgue@...s.st.com>:
>      Tags 1bb694e20839 2020-05-01 00:00:00 1
>    Jose Abreu <joabreu@...opsys.com>:
>    Top reviewers:
>      [75]: horms@...nel.org
>      [49]: andrew@...n.ch
>      [46]: fancer.lancer@...il.com
>    INACTIVE MAINTAINER Jose Abreu <joabreu@...opsys.com>
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
> --

Unfortunately no time to ramp up on it and driver has changed 
significantly since I worked on it. Hoping someone will raise their hand
to take this activity.

Acked-by: Alexandre Torgue <alexandre.torgue@...s.st.com>

> We could add an entry to AUTHORS, but a quick git log doesn't show
> huge number of patches or LoC. I could be looking wrong..
> 
> CC: joabreu@...opsys.com
> CC: alexandre.torgue@...s.st.com
> ---
>   MAINTAINERS | 5 +----
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index 7f22da12284c..613f15747b6b 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -22509,11 +22509,8 @@ F:	Documentation/devicetree/bindings/phy/st,stm32mp25-combophy.yaml
>   F:	drivers/phy/st/phy-stm32-combophy.c
>   
>   STMMAC ETHERNET DRIVER
> -M:	Alexandre Torgue <alexandre.torgue@...s.st.com>
> -M:	Jose Abreu <joabreu@...opsys.com>
>   L:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
> -S:	Supported
> -W:	http://www.stlinux.com
> +S:	Orphan
>   F:	Documentation/networking/device_drivers/ethernet/stmicro/
>   F:	drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/
>