On Mon, 17 Oct 2022 22:13:11 +0300 Vladimir Oltean wrote: > The portion I highlighted of the change you're making includes your name > into the output of $(./scripts/get_maintainer.pl drivers/net/dsa/lan9303-core.c). > In other words, you're voluntarily subscribing to the responsibility of > being a maintainer for the driver, getting emails from other developers, > reviewing patches. Furthermore, you also maintain the code in the stable > trees, hence your name also gets propagated there so people who use > those kernels can report problems to you. > > The MAINTAINERS entry for lan9303 needs to go to the "net" tree, from > where it can be backported. This covers the driver + schema files as > they currently are. The change of the .txt to the .yaml schema then > comes on top of that (and on "net-next"). And FWIW net gets merged into net-next every Thu so (compared to how long this patch had been in review) it won't be a large delay to wait for the MAINTAINERS patch to propagate.
