Re: drivers without explicit MAINTAINERS entry - was: Re: [media-workshop] Tentative Agenda for the November workshop

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Em Fri, 2 Nov 2012 14:47:49 +0100
Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xxxxxxxxx> escreveu:

> On Fri November 2 2012 14:13:10 Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> > Em Thu, 1 Nov 2012 14:12:44 -0200
> > Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxx> escreveu:
> > 
> > > Em Thu, 1 Nov 2012 16:44:50 +0100
> > > Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xxxxxxxxx> escreveu:
> > > 
> > > > On Thu October 25 2012 19:27:01 Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> > > > > Hi Hans,
> > > > > 
> > > > > Em Mon, 22 Oct 2012 10:35:56 +0200
> > > > > Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xxxxxxxxx> escreveu:
> > > > > 
> > > > > > Hi all,
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > This is the tentative agenda for the media workshop on November 8, 2012.
> > > > > > If you have additional things that you want to discuss, or something is wrong
> > > > > > or incomplete in this list, please let me know so I can update the list.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Thank you for taking care of it.
> > > > > 
> > > > > > - Explain current merging process (Mauro)
> > > > > > - Open floor for discussions on how to improve it (Mauro)
> > > > > > - Write down minimum requirements for new V4L2 (and DVB?) drivers, both for
> > > > > >   staging and mainline acceptance: which frameworks to use, v4l2-compliance,
> > > > > >   etc. (Hans Verkuil)
> > > > > > - V4L2 ambiguities (Hans Verkuil)
> > > > > > - TSMux device (a mux rather than a demux): Alain Volmat
> > > > > > - dmabuf status, esp. with regards to being able to test (Mauro/Samsung)
> > > > > > - Device tree support (Guennadi, not known yet whether this topic is needed)
> > > > > > - Creating/selecting contexts for hardware that supports this (Samsung, only
> > > > > >   if time is available)
> > > > > 
> > > > > I have an extra theme for discussions there: what should we do with the drivers
> > > > > that don't have any MAINTAINERS entry.
> > > > 
> > > > I've added this topic to the list.
> > > 
> > > Thanks!
> > > 
> > > > > It probably makes sense to mark them as "Orphan" (or, at least, have some
> > > > > criteria to mark them as such). Perhaps before doing that, we could try
> > > > > to see if are there any developer at the community with time and patience
> > > > > to handle them.
> > > > > 
> > > > > This could of course be handled as part of the discussions about how to improve
> > > > > the merge process, but I suspect that this could generate enough discussions
> > > > > to be handled as a separate theme.
> > > > 
> > > > Do we have a 'Maintainer-Light' category? I have a lot of hardware that I can
> > > > test. So while I wouldn't like to be marked as 'The Maintainer of driver X'
> > > > (since I simply don't have the time for that), I wouldn't mind being marked as
> > > > someone who can at least test patches if needed.
> > > 
> > > There are several "maintainance" status there: 
> > > 
> > > 	S: Status, one of the following:
> > > 	   Supported:	Someone is actually paid to look after this.
> > > 	   Maintained:	Someone actually looks after it.
> > > 	   Odd Fixes:	It has a maintainer but they don't have time to do
> > > 			much other than throw the odd patch in. See below..
> > > 	   Orphan:	No current maintainer [but maybe you could take the
> > > 			role as you write your new code].
> > > 	   Obsolete:	Old code. Something tagged obsolete generally means
> > > 			it has been replaced by a better system and you
> > > 			should be using that.
> > > 
> > > (btw, I just realized that I should be changing the EDAC drivers I maintain
> > >  to Supported; the media drivers I maintain should be kept as Maintained).
> > > 
> > > I suspect that the "maintainer-light" category for those radio and similar
> > > old stuff is likely "Odd Fixes".
> > > 
> > > > > There are some issues by not having a MAINTAINERS entry:
> > > > > 	- patches may not flow into the driver maintainer;
> > > > > 	- patches will likely be applied without tests/reviews or may
> > > > > 	  stay for a long time queued;
> > > > > 	- ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl at --no-git-fallback won't return
> > > > > 	  any maintainer[1].
> > > > > 
> > > > > [1] Letting get_maintainer.pl is very time/CPU consuming. Letting it would 
> > > > > delay a lot the patch review process, if applied for every patch, with
> > > > > unreliable and doubtful results. I don't do it, due to the large volume
> > > > > of patches, and because the 'other' results aren't typically the driver
> > > > > maintainer.
> > > > > 
> > > > > An example of this is the results for a patch I just applied
> > > > > (changeset 2866aed103b915ca8ba0ff76d5790caea4e62ced):
> > > > > 
> > > > > 	$ git show --pretty=email|./scripts/get_maintainer.pl
> > > > > 	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> (maintainer:MEDIA INPUT INFRA...,commit_signer:7/7=100%)
> > > > > 	Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@xxxxxxxxx> (commit_signer:4/7=57%)
> > > > > 	Anatolij Gustschin <agust@xxxxxxx> (commit_signer:1/7=14%)
> > > > > 	Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> (commit_signer:1/7=14%)
> > > > > 	Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx> (commit_signer:1/7=14%)
> > > > > 	linux-media@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (open list:MEDIA INPUT INFRA...)
> > > > > 	linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (open list)
> > > > > 
> > > > > According with this driver's copyrights:
> > > > > 
> > > > >  * Copyright 2008-2010 Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
> > > > >  *
> > > > >  *  Freescale VIU video driver
> > > > >  *
> > > > >  *  Authors: Hongjun Chen <hong-jun.chen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > >  *	     Porting to 2.6.35 by DENX Software Engineering,
> > > > >  *	     Anatolij Gustschin <agust@xxxxxxx>
> > > > > 
> > > > > The driver author (Hongjun Chen <hong-jun.chen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>) was not even
> > > > > shown there, and the co-author got only 15% hit, while I got 100% and Hans
> > > > > got 57%.
> > > > > 
> > > > > This happens not only to this driver. In a matter of fact, on most cases where
> > > > > no MAINTAINERS entry exist, the driver's author gets a very small hit chance,
> > > > > as, on several of those drivers, the author doesn't post anything else but
> > > > > the initial patch series.
> > > > 
> > > > We probably need to have an entry for all the media drivers, even if it just
> > > > points to the linux-media mailinglist as being the 'collective default maintainer'.
> > > 
> > > Yes, I think that all media drivers should be there. I prefer to tag the ones
> > > that nobody sends us a MAINTAINERS entry with "Orphan", as this tag indicates
> > > that help is wanted. 
> > 
> > I wrote a small shell script to see what's missing, using the analyze_build.pl script
> > at media-build devel_scripts dir:
> > 
> > 	DIR=$(dirname $0)
> > 
> > 	$DIR/analyze_build.pl --path drivers/media/ --show_files_per_module >/tmp/all_drivers
> > 	grep drivers/media/ MAINTAINERS | perl -ne 's/F:\s+//;s,drivers/media/,,; print $_ if (!/^\n/)' >maintained
> > 	grep -v -f maintained /tmp/all_drivers |grep -v -e keymaps -e v4l2-core/ -e dvb-core/ -e media.ko -e rc-core.ko -e ^#| sort >without_maint
> > 
> > I excluded the core files from the list, as they don't need any specific entry. RC
> > keymaps is also a special case, as I don't think any maintainer is needed for them.
> > 
> > Basically, analyze_build.pl says that there are 613 drivers under drivers/media.
> > The above script shows 348 drivers without an explicit maintainer. So, only 43%
> > of the drivers have a formal maintainer.
> > 
> > Yet, on the list below, I think several of them can be easily tagged as
> > "Odd fixes", like cx88 and saa7134. 
> > 
> > I think I'll send today a few RFC MAINTAINERS patches for some stuff below that
> > I can myself be added as "Odd fixes". Yet, I would very much prefer if someone
> > with more time than me could be taking over the "Odd fixes" patches I'll propose.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Mauro
> 
> These two are 'Supported' by me:
> 
> i2c/ad9389b.ko                 = i2c/ad9389b.c
> i2c/adv7604.ko                 = i2c/adv7604.c
> 
> These are 'Maintained' by me:
> 
> i2c/cx2341x.ko                 = i2c/cx2341x.c
> parport/bw-qcam.ko             = parport/bw-qcam.c
> parport/c-qcam.ko              = parport/c-qcam.c
> radio/dsbr100.ko               = radio/dsbr100.c
> radio/radio-cadet.ko           = radio/radio-cadet.c
> radio/radio-isa.ko             = radio/radio-isa.c
> radio/radio-keene.ko           = radio/radio-keene.c

OK. Could you please send patches for those? I think that the better is
to write one patch by each MAINTAINERS entry (except, of course, if there
are consecutive entries), as I suspect that MAINTAINERS is likely one
of top-rated merge-conflicts file.

> 
> There are more radio drivers that can have that status, but I would need
> to check that when I'm back in Oslo.
> 
> I can do 'Odd fixes' for the following:
> 
> i2c/cx25840/cx25840.ko         = i2c/cx25840/cx25840-core.c i2c/cx25840/cx25840-audio.c i2c/cx25840/cx25840-firmware.c i2c/cx25840/cx25840-vbi.c i2c/cx25840/cx25840-ir.c
> i2c/m52790.ko                  = i2c/m52790.c
> i2c/msp3400.ko                 = i2c/msp3400-driver.c i2c/msp3400-kthreads.c
> i2c/saa6588.ko                 = i2c/saa6588.c
> i2c/saa7110.ko                 = i2c/saa7110.c
> i2c/saa7115.ko                 = i2c/saa7115.c
> i2c/saa7127.ko                 = i2c/saa7127.c
> i2c/saa717x.ko                 = i2c/saa717x.c
> i2c/tda7432.ko                 = i2c/tda7432.c
> i2c/tda9840.ko                 = i2c/tda9840.c
> i2c/tea6415c.ko                = i2c/tea6415c.c
> i2c/tea6420.ko                 = i2c/tea6420.c
> i2c/tvaudio.ko                 = i2c/tvaudio.c
> i2c/tveeprom.ko                = i2c/tveeprom.c

> i2c/tvp5150.ko                 = i2c/tvp5150.c
While I don't mind if you want to do odd fixes for this device,
I think I can maintain this one, as the "default" device I use for
random tests has this chipset (HVR-950), and I wrote this driver.

> i2c/wm8739.ko                  = i2c/wm8739.c
> i2c/wm8775.ko                  = i2c/wm8775.c
> parport/pms.ko                 = parport/pms.c
> platform/vivi.ko               = platform/vivi.c
> radio/radio-aimslab.ko         = radio/radio-aimslab.c
> radio/radio-gemtek.ko          = radio/radio-gemtek.c
> radio/radio-maxiradio.ko       = radio/radio-maxiradio.c
> radio/radio-miropcm20.ko       = radio/radio-miropcm20.c
> radio/radio-mr800.ko           = radio/radio-mr800.c
> radio/radio-rtrack2.ko         = radio/radio-rtrack2.c
> radio/radio-si4713.ko          = radio/radio-si4713.c

> usb/cx231xx/cx231xx-alsa.ko    = usb/cx231xx/cx231xx-audio.c
> usb/cx231xx/cx231xx-dvb.ko     = usb/cx231xx/cx231xx-dvb.c
> usb/cx231xx/cx231xx-input.ko   = usb/cx231xx/cx231xx-input.c
> usb/cx231xx/cx231xx.ko         = +
I think we should check if the driver author is not interested on
taking maintainership for this one, before putting it on Odd fixes status.

> usb/hdpvr/hdpvr.ko             = usb/hdpvr/hdpvr-control.c usb/hdpvr/hdpvr-core.c usb/hdpvr/hdpvr-video.c usb/hdpvr/hdpvr-i2c.c

> usb/tm6000/tm6000-alsa.ko      = usb/tm6000/tm6000-alsa.c
> usb/tm6000/tm6000.ko           = usb/tm6000/tm6000-cards.c usb/tm6000/tm6000-core.c usb/tm6000/tm6000-i2c.c usb/tm6000/tm6000-video.c usb/tm6000/tm6000-stds.c usb/tm6000/tm6000-input.c

Just submitted an RFC patch for this one, also as "Odd fixes".
Of course, I don't mind if you prefer to take it. Btw, you forgot
the tm6000-dvb driver, that it is part of it.

> usb/usbvision/usbvision.ko     = usb/usbvision/usbvision-core.c usb/usbvision/usbvision-video.c usb/usbvision/usbvision-i2c.c usb/usbvision/usbvision-cards.c
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 	Hans

Regards,
Mauro
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