Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 19 Sep 2018 13:16:42 +0300 | From | Mika Westerberg <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 5/5] MAINTAINERS: Add Lukas Wunner as co-maintainer of thunderbolt |
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On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 12:34:16AM +0200, Andreas Noever wrote: > On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 11:00 AM Mika Westerberg > <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com> wrote: > > > > On Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 12:33:33PM +0300, Mika Westerberg wrote: > > > Hi Lukas, > > > > > > I'm including Greg here in case I've done something wrong as a maintainer. > > > Since I've only maintained Thunderbolt quite short time, it may be that > > > I've done mistakes but certainly I did not deliberately try to make life of > > > people developing this for older Apple systems harder. > > > > Greg did not yell at me (yet) so I guess I'm doing OK :) > > > > > On Sun, Sep 09, 2018 at 11:42:01PM +0200, Lukas Wunner wrote: > > > > Andreas Noever has let it be known off-list already a while ago that he > > > > currently cannot spare as much time for Thunderbolt development as he'd > > > > like. As a result the driver's development has become dominated by > > > > Intel. > > > > > > I was not aware of this. Althought Andreas has not commented much > > > lately, I thought he is still looking after our changes. I hope he still > > > is :) > > > > > > > I would like to step up as co-maintainer to provide additional checks > > > > and balances and prevent the driver from degenerating into an Intel-only > > > > show. A number of things really irk me: > > > > > > I don't have anything against this but at the same time I'm afraid it > > > might lead to a situation where the Thunderbolt driver evolution gets > > > stopped into its tracks because of unnecessary fighting over each patch > > > and change which does not benefit Linux kernel in general. > > > > I think we have enough maintainers in this subsystem: > As mentioned by Lukas I'm currently quite preoccupied with other commitments > and have not done much more than skimming the incoming patches (especially > those touching the Intel part - as I trust you know what you are doing there :)) > If there is concern over too many maintainers then please give my spot to Lukas. > Since I no longer use my MacBook regularly my ability to effectively > test stuff is > quite limited anyways. > > Thanks, > Andreas > > > > Andreas - Apple hardware > > Michael and me - Intel > > Yehezkel - Microsoft > > > > But I think we can make you a dedicated reviewer. This should make sure > > you get to review all the patches touching this subsystem. > > > > However, first I would like to get confirmation from Andreas that he > > approves this. > Signed-off-by: Andreas Noever <andreas.noever@gmail.com>
Thanks for the comments Andreas! Then either way is fine by me :)
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