[PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Change BCMRING maintainer

[JD (Jiandong) Zheng]

Hi Eric and Joe,

It is true that I didn't contribute to kernel directly using my company's email address. My company wants to have an engineer to be the contact point and submit patch for BCMRING code and as Leo is not longer with our company I took over this responsibility from him so that any BCMRING maintenance issue or question will be directed to me firstly in Broadcom.

I'd say I am new as a *direct* kernel contributor and I have a lot to learn. I understand I need to show some credits by submitting patches, etc. and I will.

Thanks,
JD

-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Miao [mailto:eric.y.miao at gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2010 7:58 PM
To: Joe Perches
Cc: JD (Jiandong) Zheng; linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Change BCMRING maintainer

On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 10:39 AM, Joe Perches <joe at perches.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-06-16 at 10:17 +0800, Eric Miao wrote:
>> On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 4:42 AM, JD (Jiandong) Zheng
>> <jdzheng at broadcom.com> wrote:
>> > I am Jiandong Zheng working on BCMRING in Broadcom Canada Ltd.
>> > I am replacing Leo Chen (leochen at broadcom.com) as
>> > "ARM/BCMRING ARM ARCHITECTURE" and "ARM/BCMRING MTD NAND DRIVER"
>> >  maintainer.
>> > Signed-off-by: Jiandong Zheng <jdzheng at broadcom.com>
>> Search your email address in linux-2.6 tree, no result found. This is
>> community, not a company. Maintainer is not assigned. Show us some
>> credits please?
>
> I think you're going overboard Eric.
> You'll find several company addresses, some with names, in MAINTAINERS.

Well, I'm not against a company address at all, I myself am employed and
use company address very often. And I really welcome some one to come up
and take the responsibility of some orphaned code. But the first impression
of this, to me, it's more like a Broadcom internal policy to assign someone
or not (maybe some work transition of Leo Chen). And I haven't seen much
contribution from JD so far, honestly, (but doesn't mean I don't believe
he's going to contribute a lot).

Sorry, JD, I was a bit rude on this and this is not personal at all. Nice to
know you actually, bcmring was not actively maintained since last year.
I hope we can know more about you.

>
> for instance:
> $ grep M:.*support MAINTAINERS
> M:      support at lsi.com
> M:      Vincent Sanders <support at simtec.co.uk>
> M:      Vincent Sanders <support at simtec.co.uk>
> M:      Matthias Bruestle and Harald Welte <support at reiner-sct.com>
> M:      Support Department <support at connecttech.com>
>
> Some others:
> M:      STEricsson <STEricsson_nomadik_linux at list.st.com>
> M:      "Digi International, Inc" <Eng.Linux at digi.com>
> M:      HighPoint Linux Team <linux at highpoint-tech.com>
> M:      Intel Linux Wireless <ilw at linux.intel.com>
> M:      linux-wimax at intel.com
> M:      linux390 at de.ibm.com
> M:      linux-driver at qlogic.com
> M:      Solarflare linux maintainers <linux-net-drivers at solarflare.com>
> M:      davinci-linux-open-source at linux.davincidsp.com
>
> Would you prefer that broadcom go the way of intel with the
> ipw2x00 or just have a faceless "linux-support at broadcom.com"?
>
> Not me.
>
> Welcome JD.
>
>
>