Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] MAINTAINERS: Add new maintainers to Redpine driver

From: Kalle Valo <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2023 12:28:57 +0200

Ganapathi Kondraju <[email-masked]> writes:

> Silicon Labs acquired Redpine Signals recently. It needs to continue
> giving support to the existing REDPINE WIRELESS DRIVER. This patch adds
> new Maintainers for it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ganapathi Kondraju <[email-masked]>
> ---
> V2:
> - Add proper prefix for patch subject.
> - Reorder the maintainers list alphabetically.
> - Add a new member to the list.
> ---
> V3:
> - Fix sentence formation in the patch subject and description.
> ---
>
>  MAINTAINERS | 8 +++++++-
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index ea941dc..04a08c7 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -17709,8 +17709,14 @@ S:	Maintained
>  F:	drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw89/
>  
>  REDPINE WIRELESS DRIVER
> +M:	Amol Hanwate <[email-masked]>
> +M:	Ganapathi Kondraju <[email-masked]>
> +M:	Jérôme Pouiller <[email-masked]>
> +M:	Narasimha Anumolu <[email-masked]>
> +M:	Shivanadam Gude <[email-masked]>
> +M:	Srinivas Chappidi <[email-masked]>
>  L:	[email-masked]
> -S:	Orphan
> +S:	Maintained
>  F:	drivers/net/wireless/rsi/

For me six maintainers is way too much. Just last November I marked this
driver as orphan, I really do not want to add all these people to
MAINTAINERS and never hear from them again.

Ideally I would prefer to have one or two maintainers who would be
actively working with the drivers. And also I would like to see some
proof (read: reviewing patches and providing feedback) that the
maintainers are really parciticiping in upstream before changing the
status.

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