Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] MAINTAINERS: PHY: Change maintainer to reviewer

From: Joe Perches <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2015 17:04:11 -0800

On Tue, 2015-11-24 at 15:29 -0800, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> Now that there is a reviewer role, add myself as reviewer since the PHY
> library code is maintained via the networking tree.

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> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
[]
> @@ -4195,7 +4195,7 @@ F:	include/linux/netfilter_bridge/
>  F:> 	> net/bridge/
>  
>  ETHERNET PHY LIBRARY
> -M:	Florian Fainelli <[email-masked]>
> +R:	Florian Fainelli <[email-masked]>
>  L:	[email-masked]
>  S:	Maintained
>  F:	include/linux/phy.h

Just because the upstream path is not a tree you
manage doesn't mean you aren't a maintainer.

I think the status should be something other than
"Maintained" if you are not the maintainer.