From: Florian Fainelli <florian@openwrt•org>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft•net>
Cc: netdev@vger•kernel.org, hvr@gnu•org, kernel@wantstofly•org,
mika.westerberg@iki•fi, hsweeten@visionengravers•com,
ryan@bluewatersys•com, linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ep93xx-eth: convert to phylib
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2011 07:15:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201106060715.52332.florian@openwrt.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110605.140657.1039864716002412071.davem@davemloft.net>
On Sunday 05 June 2011 23:06:57 David Miller wrote:
> From: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail•com>
> Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2011 20:29:24 +0200
>
> > On Sunday 05 June 2011 19:57:36 Florian Fainelli wrote:
> >> ep93xx-eth lacked support for monitoring link status changes, with this
> >> patch, link changes are now watched and reported correctly.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <florian@openwrt•org>
> >> ---
> >
> > I just stumbled upon: http://www.mail-
> > archive.com/netdev@vger•kernel.org/msg62549.html
> > which does not seem to have been merged.
> >
> > I will respin my patch with Herbert's changes
>
> If people wonder why things don't get merged in situations like
> this it's because there is no clear person standing up to act as
> a maintainer.
No problem here so far.
>
> Instead there are several different people submitting changes to
> this one driver and I haven't got a clue who is authoritative and
> who is not.
>
> So 9 times out of ten I'm not going to merge anything submitted
> in this way unless I start to see lots of ACKs from other developers.
>
> When it gets to the point where multiple people are touching the
> driver in all sorts of ways, there needs to be someone to do all of
> the merging and making sure the patches get applied in the right order
> and handling merge conflicts handled properly. Then they submit them
> formally here as a sane single set of patches to the list.
>
> So who is going to step up and be the ep93xx-eth maintainer? Lennert
> is listed in MAINTAINERS, but I see little to no activity from him.
Lennert, do you still have time, hardware and will to maintain that driver?
>
> The last ACK Lennert gave for a patch to this driver was in May 2010,
> more than a year ago.
--
Florian
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-06 5:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-05 17:57 [PATCH] ep93xx-eth: convert to phylib Florian Fainelli
2011-06-05 18:29 ` Florian Fainelli
2011-06-05 21:06 ` David Miller
2011-06-06 5:15 ` Florian Fainelli [this message]
2011-06-06 17:34 ` Lennert Buytenhek
2011-06-09 20:30 ` Petr Štetiar
2011-06-10 9:46 ` Florian Fainelli
2011-06-15 19:15 ` Mika Westerberg
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