Hi Vinod,
On Wed, 2017-11-01 at 14:35 +0530, Vinod Koul wrote:
> 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.
Fair enough. And it's not that we desperately want to become maintainers,
in fact personally I just want to make sure the driver is kept alive because
we rely on it [as a corresponding HW block is a part of our dev platform].
So if current state of things [with Andy resigned from his maintainer role]
is OK for everybody let it be that way. But if now the future of the driver
is questionable because nobody officially "cares" about it we'll be willing
to back it up by our support.
I hope it's more clear now.
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