On Wed, Nov 01, 2017 at 02:09:59AM +0000, Viresh Kumar wrote: > On 31 October 2017 at 12:59, Alexey Brodkin <Alexey.Brodkin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Sure, but please note I'm not representing entire Synopsys and only speak for > > ARC part who has not a lot to do with DesignWare IP-blocks as its developers, > > we're more of users of DW peripherals built-in our devsystems. > > > > Still since we became a part of Synopsys we started to use DW peripherals > > a lot on our devsytems. And currently we have at least one devboard (AXS10x) > > that has DW AHB DMAC built-in and we plan to maintain this board for a couple > > of more years. > > > > That's just to set your expectations :) > > Thanks for that information. > > > Otherwise I think it would be beneficial for us and the driver as I guess we're > > the closest team in Linux community to HW people responsible for DW DMAC. > > > > So shall we send a separate patch with addition of Eugeniy Palpsev as > > a co-maintainer or Andy might do it in his patch? > > Hmm. TBH, I am not sure if we add maintainers on these grounds really. Not that > I am against adding one more. > > @Vinod: What do you think ? As long as Alexey signs up to support the driver, queries, bug reports it should be fine. A maintainer is one who looks after the driver and responds to community and me for issues. So please feel free to send a patch with your name and/or Eugeniy. -- ~Vinod -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe dmaengine" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
