On Thursday 15 February 2007, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > I'm totally confused about who the heck is the spidernet maintainer. > > Me too :-) > > > My > > inbox is pelted by spidernet driver updates from multiple people, and > > often the spidernet patches (regardless of author) receive comments that > > give me pause. The MAINTAINERS file says > > > > > SPIDERNET NETWORK DRIVER for CELL > > > P: Jim Lewis > > > M: jim@xxxxxxxxxxx > > > L: netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > S: Supported > > > > but I do not see patch roll-ups or much activity from him at all. In > > practice, it seems like Linas does patchsets for spidernet, but there is > > also Jakob Osterkemp(sp?) and Ishizaki and.... > > I think Jens Osterkampf should be the final ACK/NAK'er as he has all the > hardware to test except the Toshiba gear :-) In fact, Jens, if you are > ok with that, I'd like to have you be the maintainer of that driver, > unless you think it's better for Linas to do it. > > > My overall impression of spidernet development is that EVERYBODY is > > submitting patches at once, and expecting me to sort out the mess. No > > thanks. > > It's been a bit of a mess. I suggest we get our gear together (Linas, > Jens, Kou) and provide you a single patch set from a single source in > the upcoming couple of days coming from the designated maintainer. > > Jens ? Linas ? Is that ok with you guys ? Who gets to be that > maintainer ? > > _ALSO_ since spidernet uses (and modifies) sungem_phy.c, we need either > DaveM or my ack there (DaveM is sungem maintainer but I wrote sungem_phy > and most of it is only used on powermacs). > > Thus let's move that back to the cbe-oss-dev mailing list, our > designated maintainer will post there a candidate patch set, I will > verify the sungem_phy change is ok with powermac (I myself haven't > followed enough to figure out what patch is the latest there), we'll all > test on our respective hardware, and then that maintainer will send you > one patch set to apply. > > That shouldn't take more than a few days. If we miss -rc1, well, then it > will be in -rc2, as most of the patches have been around for long enough > etc... it's really mostly a matter of getting our gear together. > > > Speaking with one voice would be much appreciated. And said speaker > > should patch the MAINTAINERS file to reflect reality. Sounds reasonable. I fully agree. Linas has done a pretty good job on improving the driver in the last half year or so and he also has access to all the necessary hardware so I think he would be the right person for the job. Jens - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
