MAINTAINERS: Update MIPS entry
cover MAINTAINERS: Update MIPS entry
Update the MIPS entry in MAINTAINERS to reflect reality as it currently stands.
Paul Burton (2):
MAINTAINERS: Remove Ralf Baechle as MIPS maintainer
MAINTAINERS: Set MIPS status to Odd Fixes
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PATCH 1/2 MAINTAINERS: Remove Ralf Baechle as MIPS maintainer
Ralf last authored a patch over 2 years ago, the last time he committed one is even further back & activity was sporadic for a while before that. Remove him from MAINTAINERS to reflect the reality that he isn't active anymore. Ralf already has an entry in CREDITS to honor his contributions.
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PATCH 2/2 MAINTAINERS: Set MIPS status to Odd Fixes
In reply to Paul BurtonMy time with MIPS the company has reached its end, and so at best I'll have little time spend on maintaining arch/mips/. Reflect that in MAINTAINERS by changing status to Odd Fixes. Hopefully this might spur the involvement of someone with more time, but even if not it should help serve to avoid unrealistic expectations.
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@@ -11120,7 +11120,7 @@ W: http://www.linux-mips.org/ T: git git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/linux.git T: git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mips/linux.git Q: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/project/linux-mips/list/ -S: Supported +S: Odd Fixes F: Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mips/ F: Documentation/mips/ F: arch/mips/
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Re: [PATCH 2/2] MAINTAINERS: Set MIPS status to Odd Fixes
Quoted 5 lines · Paul Burton
My time with MIPS the company has reached its end, and so at best I'll have little time spend on maintaining
arch/mips/. Reflect that inMAINTAINERSby changing status to Odd Fixes. Hopefully this might spur the involvement of someone with more time, but even if not it should help serve to avoid unrealistic expectations.
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Maybe Ralf's T: entry should be removed too.
Re: [PATCH 2/2] MAINTAINERS: Set MIPS status to Odd Fixes
Hi, all,
I suggest Jiaxun Yang to be the new Linux/MIPS maintainer because of the following reasons:
1. He is familiar with Linux kernel & MIPS architecture.
2. He is active and has already contributed many patches.
3. He is not an employee of any corporation, so people can expect him to be neutral.
4. He is young and has enough free time to follow the mainstream development closely.
5. His English is good and is willing to maintain a good level of communication with other contributors.
Jiaxun, what's your opinion?
Regards,
Huacai Chen
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Quoted 5 lines · Paul Burton
My time with MIPS the company has reached its end, and so at best I'll have little time spend on maintaining
arch/mips/. Reflect that inMAINTAINERSby changing status to Odd Fixes. Hopefully this might spur the involvement of someone with more time, but even if not it should help serve to avoid unrealistic expectations.[]
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Re: [PATCH 2/2] MAINTAINERS: Set MIPS status to Odd Fixes
于 2020年2月20日 GMT+08:00 下午2:44:03, Huacai Chen <[email protected]> 写到:
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Hi, all,
I suggest Jiaxun Yang to be the new Linux/MIPS maintainer because of the following reasons:
1. He is familiar with Linux kernel & MIPS architecture.
2. He is active and has already contributed many patches.
3. He is not an employee of any corporation, so people can expect him to be neutral.
4. He is young and has enough free time to follow the mainstream development closely.
5. His English is good and is willing to maintain a good level of communication with other contributors.
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Jiaxun, what's your opinion?
Thanks for your recommendation.
It's my pleasure to take this duty if I'm eligible.
I have experience in MIPS chips and have already involved in some review processes. i.e.loongson, Ingenic/MediaTec & etc.
As what Huacai has said, I'm a pure contributor from community, which means I will able to be neutral
to MIPS family members.
[Also added Yunqiang Su to Cc list as he is the
only current MIPS company employee I know.]
Thanks.
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Regards,
Huacai Chen
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Jiaxun Yang
Thomas Bogendoerfer
maintainerRe: [PATCH 2/2] MAINTAINERS: Set MIPS status to Odd Fixes
In reply to Paul BurtonQuoted 5 lines · Paul Burton
My time with MIPS the company has reached its end, and so at best I'll have little time spend on maintaining
arch/mips/. Reflect that inMAINTAINERSby changing status to Odd Fixes. Hopefully this might spur the involvement of someone with more time, but even if not it should help serve to avoid unrealistic expectations.
I'd like to jump in as MIPS maintainer. I'm doing Linux MIPS kernel development since ages (started with an Olivetti M700 and kernel version 2.x) and right now time for doing the jobs isn't issue:-)
Thomas.
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Re: [PATCH 2/2] MAINTAINERS: Set MIPS status to Odd Fixes
CC people from NeoCore and CIP United, and my Wave Computing's mail address.
Quoted 9 lines · Thomas Bogendoerfer <[email protected]> 于2020年2月20日周四 下午7:23写道：
Quoted 5 lines · Paul Burton
My time with MIPS the company has reached its end, and so at best I'll have little time spend on maintaining
arch/mips/. Reflect that inMAINTAINERSby changing status to Odd Fixes. Hopefully this might spur the involvement of someone with more time, but even if not it should help serve to avoid unrealistic expectations.I'd like to jump in as MIPS maintainer. I'm doing Linux MIPS kernel
It is a great news that you are willing to act as maintainer as Linux-MIPS.
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development since ages (started with an Olivetti M700 and kernel version 2.x) and right now time for doing the jobs isn't issue:-)
I noticed that you are mainly working some old machines.
And recently years, there are some new machines from Ingenic, Loongson, MTK etc. MIPS Inc also have some MIPSr6 IPs.
I think that you need some of these machines.
In the last years, we see that the single maintainer is not enough as people may quite busy.
Do you think that we need co-maintainers?
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Thomas.
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Crap can work. Given enough thrust pigs will fly, but it's not necessarily a
good idea. [ RFC1925, 2.3 ]
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YunQiang Su
Re: [PATCH 2/2] MAINTAINERS: Set MIPS status to Odd Fixes
Hi,
CC people from Ingenic Semi and Wanyee Tech.
Quoted 12 lines · YunQiang Su
CC people from NeoCore and CIP United, and my Wave Computing's mail address.
Quoted 7 lines · Thomas Bogendoerfer <[email protected]> 于2020年2月20日周四 下午7:23写道：
Quoted 5 lines · Paul Burton
My time with MIPS the company has reached its end, and so at best I'll have little time spend on maintaining
arch/mips/. Reflect that inMAINTAINERSby changing status to Odd Fixes. Hopefully this might spur the involvement of someone with more time, but even if not it should help serve to avoid unrealistic expectations.I'd like to jump in as MIPS maintainer. I'm doing Linux MIPS kernel
It is a great news that you are willing to act as maintainer as Linux-MIPS.
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development since ages (started with an Olivetti M700 and kernel version 2.x) and right now time for doing the jobs isn't issue:-)
I noticed that you are mainly working some old machines.
And recently years, there are some new machines from Ingenic, Loongson, MTK etc. MIPS Inc also have some MIPSr6 IPs.
I think that you need some of these machines.
I can provide some new Ingenic platform machines as a gift to Thomas.
Ingenic X1000 can be provided in a short time, it has been directly supported by kernel 5.6. X1830 and X2000 will be available later.
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In the last years, we see that the single maintainer is not enough as people may quite busy.
Do you think that we need co-maintainers?Quoted 5 lines
Thomas.
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Crap can work. Given enough thrust pigs will fly, but it's not necessarily a
good idea. [ RFC1925, 2.3 ]
Re: [PATCH 2/2] MAINTAINERS: Set MIPS status to Odd Fixes
Quoted 26 lines · Zhou Yanjie <[email protected]> 于2020年2月20日周四 下午8:40写道：
Hi,
CC people from Ingenic Semi and Wanyee Tech.
Quoted 12 lines · YunQiang Su
CC people from NeoCore and CIP United, and my Wave Computing's mail address.
Quoted 7 lines · Thomas Bogendoerfer <[email protected]> 于2020年2月20日周四 下午7:23写道：
Quoted 5 lines · Paul Burton
My time with MIPS the company has reached its end, and so at best I'll have little time spend on maintaining
arch/mips/. Reflect that inMAINTAINERSby changing status to Odd Fixes. Hopefully this might spur the involvement of someone with more time, but even if not it should help serve to avoid unrealistic expectations.I'd like to jump in as MIPS maintainer. I'm doing Linux MIPS kernel
It is a great news that you are willing to act as maintainer as Linux-MIPS.
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development since ages (started with an Olivetti M700 and kernel version 2.x) and right now time for doing the jobs isn't issue:-)
I noticed that you are mainly working some old machines.
And recently years, there are some new machines from Ingenic, Loongson, MTK etc. MIPS Inc also have some MIPSr6 IPs.
I think that you need some of these machines.
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I can provide some new Ingenic platform machines as a gift to Thomas. Ingenic X1000 can be provided in a short time, it has been directly supported by kernel 5.6.
X1830 and X2000 will be available later.Quoted 3 lines
In the last years, we see that the single maintainer is not enough as people may quite busy.
Do you think that we need co-maintainers?
Paul Cercueil also has interest about it. That's so cool.
As a suggestion, I think that we can have a maintainers team:
Option1: Paul Cercueil/Thomas Bogendoerfer/Jiaxun Yang
Option2: Thomas Bogendoerfer/Paul Cercueil/Jiaxun Yang
any idea?
background:
1. PaulC works lots for Ingenic support.
2. Thomas works lots for some SGI IP and some other hardware
3. Jiaxun works lots for Loongson hardware.
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Thomas.
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Re: [PATCH 2/2] MAINTAINERS: Set MIPS status to Odd Fixes
Hi,
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Quoted 20 lines · Zhou Yanjie <[email protected]> 于2020年2月20日周四 下午8:40写道：
Hi,
CC people from Ingenic Semi and Wanyee Tech.
Quoted 15 lines · YunQiang Su
CC people from NeoCore and CIP United, and my Wave Computing's mail address.
Quoted 7 lines · Thomas Bogendoerfer <[email protected]> 于2020年2月20日周四 下午7:23写道：
Quoted 5 lines · Paul Burton
My time with MIPS the company has reached its end, and so at best I'll have little time spend on maintaining
arch/mips/. Reflect that inMAINTAINERSby changing status to Odd Fixes. Hopefully this might spur the involvement of someone with more time, but even if not it should help serve to avoid unrealistic expectations.I'd like to jump in as MIPS maintainer. I'm doing Linux MIPS kernel
It is a great news that you are willing to act as maintainer as Linux-MIPS.
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development since ages (started with an Olivetti M700 and kernel version 2.x) and right now time for doing the jobs isn't issue:-)
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I noticed that you are mainly working some old machines.
And recently years, there are some new machines from Ingenic, Loongson, MTK etc. MIPS Inc also have some MIPSr6 IPs.
I think that you need some of these machines.I can provide some new Ingenic platform machines as a gift to Thomas. Ingenic X1000 can be provided in a short time, it has been directly supported by kernel 5.6.
X1830 and X2000 will be available later.Quoted 3 lines
In the last years, we see that the single maintainer is not enough as people may quite busy.
Do you think that we need co-maintainers?Paul Cercueil also has interest about it. That's so cool.
As a suggestion, I think that we can have a maintainers team:
Option1: Paul Cercueil/Thomas Bogendoerfer/Jiaxun Yang
Option2: Thomas Bogendoerfer/Paul Cercueil/Jiaxun Yang
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any idea?
background:
1. PaulC works lots for Ingenic support.
2. Thomas works lots for some SGI IP and some other hardware
3. Jiaxun works lots for Loongson hardware.
How about the three maintainer have equal rights but different emphasis. They can jointly maintain the common code parts, and they all have the veto power to ensure that new changes will not affect other platforms. And they can have a greater say in their respective focus departments, because each maintainer has corresponding hardware in hand, which can ensure that the code is tested and can run correctly.
BTW, as a developer of the Ingenic platform, I can donate the hardware of the Ingenic platform to the other two maintainers so that any one of the three maintainer can effectively verify the code of the Ingenic platform.
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Thomas.
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Thomas Bogendoerfer
maintainerRe: [PATCH 2/2] MAINTAINERS: Set MIPS status to Odd Fixes
In reply to YunQiang SuQuoted 4 lines · YunQiang Su
I noticed that you are mainly working some old machines.
And recently years, there are some new machines from Ingenic, Loongson, MTK etc. MIPS Inc also have some MIPSr6 IPs.
I think that you need some of these machines.
sure, it would be helpfull. And with a reasonable price I have no problem buying a new machine. But IMHO it's not mandatory for a maintainer to have all supported hardware available.
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In the last years, we see that the single maintainer is not enough as people may quite busy.
Do you think that we need co-maintainers?
Looking at the number of patches in arch/mips for the last few release cylces we were always in the range of 100-150 commits. So I don't see a need for a co-maintainer, but having backup maintainer(s) is a good thing.
For me maintaining means
- keep MIPS archicture alive (legacy and newer stuff)
- collecting patches and integrating them into a git tree for pulling
- send pull requests to Linus in a timely manner
- review/comment patches
- give guidance on how to do abstractions inside MIPS arch code
Some personal background
- doing Linux/MIPS coding since 1995
- worked as system architect for OS development with MIPS 4kec, 24k, 34k based embedded systems
- working now for SUSE in kernel network driver area (with enough time for other open source projects)
Thomas.
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Re: [PATCH 2/2] MAINTAINERS: Set MIPS status to Odd Fixes
In reply to Paul BurtonHi,
So I think Thomas is the best candidate to be maintainer, since he has both experience and free time ;)
I'm sort-of the maintainer for the Ingenic platform and drivers, if Jiaxun wants to do the same for Loongson hardware, that would make Thomas' job easier. Having three co-maintainers with equal rights would be a total mess.
-Paul
Quoted 24 lines · Paul Burton
My time with MIPS the company has reached its end, and so at best I'll have little time spend on maintaining
arch/mips/. Reflect that inMAINTAINERSby changing status to Odd Fixes. Hopefully this might spur the involvement of someone with more time, but even if not it should help serve to avoid unrealistic expectations.Signed-off-by Paul Burton <[email protected]>--- MAINTAINERS | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)MAINTAINERS +1
-1@@ -11120,7 +11120,7 @@ W: http://www.linux-mips.org/ T: git git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/linux.git T: git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mips/linux.git Q: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/project/linux-mips/list/ -S: Supported +S: Odd Fixes F: Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mips/ F: Documentation/mips/ F: arch/mips/
Re: [PATCH 2/2] MAINTAINERS: Set MIPS status to Odd Fixes
于 2020年2月23日 GMT+08:00 上午12:08:39, Paul Cercueil <[email protected]> 写到:
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Hi,
So I think Thomas is the best candidate to be maintainer, since he has both experience and free time ;)
So do I!
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I'm sort-of the maintainer for the Ingenic platform and drivers, if Jiaxun wants to do the same for Loongson hardware, that would make Thomas' job easier. Having three co-maintainers with equal rights would
be a total mess.
Sure. I'm still going to take care Loongson code. Probably we can help with reviewing MIPS common code too.
Thanks
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-Paul
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My time with MIPS the company has reached its end, and so at best
I'll
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have little time spend on maintaining
arch/mips/. Reflect that inMAINTAINERSby changing status to Odd Fixes. Hopefully this mightspur
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the involvement of someone with more time, but even if not it should help serve to avoid unrealistic expectations.
Signed-off-by Paul Burton <[email protected]>--- MAINTAINERS | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)MAINTAINERS +1
-1@@ -11120,7 +11120,7 @@ W: http://www.linux-mips.org/ T: git git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/linux.git T: git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mips/linux.git Q: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/project/linux-mips/list/ -S: Supported +S: Odd Fixes F: Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mips/ F: Documentation/mips/ F: arch/mips/
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Re: [PATCH 2/2] MAINTAINERS: Set MIPS status to Odd Fixes
In reply to Paul CercueilQuoted 10 lines · Paul Cercueil
Hi,
So I think Thomas is the best candidate to be maintainer, since he has both experience and free time ;)
I'm sort-of the maintainer for the Ingenic platform and drivers, if Jiaxun wants to do the same for Loongson hardware, that would make Thomas' job easier. Having three co-maintainers with equal rights would be a total mess.
You might want to add yourself a R: entry in MAINTAINERS, to be listed as designated reviewer on the Ingenic patches.
(Similarly for Jiaxun with Loongson).
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-Paul
Quoted 24 lines · Paul Burton
My time with MIPS the company has reached its end, and so at best I'll have little time spend on maintaining
arch/mips/. Reflect that inMAINTAINERSby changing status to Odd Fixes. Hopefully this might spur the involvement of someone with more time, but even if not it should help serve to avoid unrealistic expectations.Signed-off-by Paul Burton <[email protected]>--- MAINTAINERS | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)MAINTAINERS +1
-1@@ -11120,7 +11120,7 @@ W: http://www.linux-mips.org/ T: git git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/linux.git T: git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mips/linux.git Q: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/project/linux-mips/list/ -S: Supported +S: Odd Fixes F: Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mips/ F: Documentation/mips/ F: arch/mips/
Re: [PATCH 2/2] MAINTAINERS: Set MIPS status to Odd Fixes
Hi Philippe,
Quoted 14 lines · Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
Quoted 7 lines · Paul Cercueil
Hi,
So I think Thomas is the best candidate to be maintainer, since he
has
both experience and free time ;)Quoted 5 lines
I'm sort-of the maintainer for the Ingenic platform and drivers, if Jiaxun wants to do the same for Loongson hardware, that would make Thomas' job easier. Having three co-maintainers with equal rights
would
be a total mess.
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You might want to add yourself a R: entry in
MAINTAINERS, to be listed as designated reviewer on the Ingenic patches.
(Similarly for Jiaxun with Loongson).
I'm in there already as a M: entry.
-Paul
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Quoted 1 line · Paul Burton
My time with MIPS the company has reached its end, and so at best
I'll
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have little time spend on maintaining
arch/mips/. Reflect that inMAINTAINERSby changing status to Odd Fixes. Hopefully this mightspur
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the involvement of someone with more time, but even if not it
should
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help serve to avoid unrealistic expectations.
Signed-off-by Paul Burton <[email protected]>--- MAINTAINERS | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)MAINTAINERS +0
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Thomas Bogendoerfer
maintainerRe: [PATCH 2/2] MAINTAINERS: Set MIPS status to Odd Fixes
In reply to Paul CercueilQuoted 6 lines · Paul Cercueil
So I think Thomas is the best candidate to be maintainer, since he has both experience and free time ;)
I'm sort-of the maintainer for the Ingenic platform and drivers, if Jiaxun wants to do the same for Loongson hardware, that would make Thomas' job easier. Having three co-maintainers with equal rights would be a total mess.
perfect for me, thank you for your support.
Thomas.
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