[PATCH v2 6/6] drivers: soc: xilinx: update maintainer of event manager driver

[Buddhabhatti, Jay]

Hi Greg,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greg KH <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
> Sent: Thursday, October 5, 2023 7:41 PM
> To: Buddhabhatti, Jay <jay.buddhabhatti at amd.com>
> Cc: Simek, Michal <michal.simek at amd.com>; Shah, Tanmay
> <tanmay.shah at amd.com>; Manne, Nava kishore
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> Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 6/6] drivers: soc: xilinx: update maintainer of event
> manager driver
> 
> On Thu, Oct 05, 2023 at 02:09:39PM +0000, Buddhabhatti, Jay wrote:
> > Hi Greg,
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Simek, Michal <michal.simek at amd.com>
> > > Sent: Wednesday, October 4, 2023 8:05 PM
> > > To: Greg KH <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
> > > Cc: Buddhabhatti, Jay <jay.buddhabhatti at amd.com>; Shah, Tanmay
> > > <tanmay.shah at amd.com>; Manne, Nava kishore
> > > <nava.kishore.manne at amd.com>; Levinsky, Ben <ben.levinsky at amd.com>;
> > > robh at kernel.org; dhaval.r.shah at amd.com; marex at denx.de; Shaikh, Izhar
> > > Ameer <izhar.ameer.shaikh at amd.com>; arnd at arndb.de;
> > > ruanjinjie at huawei.com; mathieu.poirier at linaro.org; linux-
> > > kernel at vger.kernel.org; linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org
> > > Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 6/6] drivers: soc: xilinx: update maintainer
> > > of event manager driver
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On 10/4/23 15:47, Greg KH wrote:
> > > > On Wed, Oct 04, 2023 at 03:16:15PM +0200, Michal Simek wrote:
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >> On 10/4/23 14:17, Greg KH wrote:
> > > >>> On Wed, Oct 04, 2023 at 02:41:16AM -0700, Jay Buddhabhatti wrote:
> > > >>>> Added Michal as a maintainer of event manager driver as
> > > >>>> Abhyuday is no longer in AMD-Xilinx.
> > > >>>>
> > > >>>> Signed-off-by: Jay Buddhabhatti <jay.buddhabhatti at amd.com>
> > > >>>> Acked-by: Michal Simek <michal.simek at amd.com>
> > > >>>> ---
> > > >>>>    MAINTAINERS | 2 +-
> > > >>>>    1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > > >>>>
> > > >>>> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS index
> > > >>>> 35977b269d5e..f36fefd7032b 100644
> > > >>>> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> > > >>>> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> > > >>>> @@ -23672,7 +23672,7 @@ F:
> > > 	Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/can/xilinx,can.yaml
> > > >>>>    F:	drivers/net/can/xilinx_can.c
> > > >>>>    XILINX EVENT MANAGEMENT DRIVER
> > > >>>> -M:	Abhyuday Godhasara <abhyuday.godhasara at xilinx.com>
> > > >>>> +M:	Michal Simek <michal.simek at amd.com>
> > > >>>
> > > >>> For obvious reasons, we need an ack from Abhyuday.
> > > >>
> > > >> He no longer works for Xilinx/AMD but I have asked him on side
> > > >> channel to reply and let's see if this is going to happen or not.
> > > >
> > > > Mantainerships follow people, not companies, so if he wants to
> > > > keep being the maintainer, he can be, there's no requirement for
> > > > him to step down.
> > >
> > > No doubt about it but normally in these cases people send a patch to
> > > start to use their new email address which is what didn't happen for
> > > quite a long time in this case.
> > > I am definitely happy to wait some time if he reacts but if there is
> > > no reaction for some time we should fix it.
> >
> > [Jay] I got information that Abhyuday is aware about this, but he is not going
> to react on it.
> 
> So I guess they want to remain the maintainer?  That's fine, but a new email
> address for them is probably wanted if this one currently bounces.

[Jay] He doesn't want to remain the maintainer.

Thanks,
Jay
> 
> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h