On Mon, 2022-10-24 at 10:56 +0000, Vaittinen, Matti wrote: > On 10/24/22 13:40, Joe Perches wrote: [] > > > > S: *Status*, one of the following: > > Supported: Someone is actually paid to look after this. > Maintained: Someone actually looks after it. > > > > "this" is this particular driver, not any subsystem "above" it. > > Yes. And as I wrote, I am paid to look after this driver as well as > other drivers I've submitted upstream for ROHM components (Kionix being > part of ROHM these days). I have used this Supported + Reviewer > combination for all other IC drivers as well. This is why, by > definition, the S eg. supported is correct. Question is whether one > supporting a driver must be a maintainer? If this is the case, then I'd > better review all of my MAINTAINER entries. However, I (still) don't see > the problem of having a reviewer supporting the IC. Please do not conflate a "reviewer", someone that "might" look at a patch and offer comments, and a "supporter", someone that actively supports the driver/subsystem. I don't have a tree that is pulled yet I am the get_maintainer and checkpatch maintainer.
