[PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Add Angelo as MediaTek SoC co-maintainer

[AngeloGioacchino Del Regno]

Il 02/10/23 11:41, Matthias Brugger ha scritto:
> 
> 
> On 29/09/2023 10:20, AngeloGioacchino Del Regno wrote:
>> I am a top reviewer mainly for MediaTek SoC related patches in most
>> subsystems and I've also been upstreaming both improvements, fixes
>> and new drivers and devicetrees when required.
>>
>> The MediaTek scene saw a generous increase in number of patches that
>> are sent to the lists every week, increasing the amount of required
>> efforts to maintain the MTK bits overall, and we will possibly see
>> even more of that.
>>
>> For this reason, and also because of suggestions and encouragement
>> coming from the community, I'm stepping up to be a co-maintainer of
>> MediaTek SoCs support.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: AngeloGioacchino Del Regno <angelogioacchino.delregno at collabora.com>
> 
> Thanks Angelo to volunteer on this. It actually was on my list for the last days to 
> ask you to help me out as I'm not able at the moment to cope with the review 
> process. That's unfortunate and we missed one merge window (August) where I took no 
> patches but after holiday situation didn't get better. I don't want to be break in 
> the MediaTek upstream development, so it's great to see you stepping up.
> 
> As I read in the thread, I agree the best will be to have a share tree at 
> kernel.org. It seems I can't share my tree with you, so hopefully you will get 
> access fast.
> 
> My idea is to not disappear and create a collaborative process for us on the 
> maintainership in the future.
> 

I am really happy first of all see that you're fine, and then to see that you
are happy with me going for this.

I will be even happier to create a collaborative process for our maintainership
of MediaTek, as I was really hoping for that to happen.

>> ---
>>
>> P.S.: I tried to reach to Matthias for almost two months, but I couldn't
>> find any way to talk to him and he has been unresponsive on the mailing
>> lists as well.
> 
> I think you didn't tried matthias.bgg at kernel.org, but that should be no excuse from 
> my side for being unresponsive. Thanks for your help!
> 
> Please contact me on IRC for any coordination.

Coming to IRC for a nice chat ASAP!
Thank *you* for this email, and preventively thanks for *your* help!

Cheers,
Angelo

> 
> Regards,
> Matthias
> 
> 
>>
>> P.P.S.: This also comes after Rob Herring's suggestion to have myself as
>> a MediaTek SoC co-maintainer [1] and support from other people.
>>
>> [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230804225813.12493-1-robh@kernel.org/
>>
>>   MAINTAINERS | 2 +-
>>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
>> index 208cfcc1aee3..211a8322c801 100644
>> --- a/MAINTAINERS
>> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
>> @@ -2330,7 +2330,7 @@ F:    drivers/rtc/rtc-mt7622.c
>>   ARM/Mediatek SoC support
>>   M:    Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg at gmail.com>
>> -R:    AngeloGioacchino Del Regno <angelogioacchino.delregno at collabora.com>
>> +M:    AngeloGioacchino Del Regno <angelogioacchino.delregno at collabora.com>
>>   L:    linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org
>>   L:    linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org (moderated for non-subscribers)
>>   L:    linux-mediatek at lists.infradead.org (moderated for non-subscribers)