[U-Boot] [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: add me as a maintainer of MTD

[Jagan Teki]

Hi Masahiro Yamada,

On 31 October 2014 17:59, Masahiro Yamada <yamada.m at jp.panasonic.com> wrote:
> Hi Heiko, Wolfgang,
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> On Fri, 31 Oct 2014 12:44:07 +0100
> Wolfgang Denk <wd at denx.de> wrote:
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>> Dear Jagan,
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>> In message <CAD6G_RRkDhNHC=+OtgtXPd7WdfJzq2bokbMKhKnL=BLSx-AdMw at mail.gmail.com> you wrote:
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>> > > I am now ready for taking over the ownership for MTD ...
>> >
>> > Is it for entire drivers/mtd ? or any specific parts?
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>> This is meant for all parts of  drivers/mtd  that are not already
>> covered by other custodians.
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>> > > +M:     Heiko Schocher <hs at denx.de>
>> > > +S:     Maintained
>> > > +T:     git git://git.denx.de/u-boot-mtd.git
>> > > +F:     drivers/mtd*
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> I am afraid this does not work at all.

I too feel that this mayn't work - for everything but uncovered part.

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> Do you mean this?
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> F:    drivers/mtd/
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>> > Don't add entire mtd - drivers/mtd/spi is owned by me.
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>> I don't know if we have a better notation for "all the rest that is
>> not already covered by somebody else"?
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> Let's see the last part of the MAINTAINERS:
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> THE REST
> M:      Tom Rini <trini at ti.com>
> L:      u-boot at lists.denx.de
> Q:      http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/uboot/list/
> S:      Maintained
> T:      git git://git.denx.de/u-boot.git
> F:      *
> F:      */
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> This entry does __not__ mean everything is maintained by Tom,
> but Tom owns all the rest that is not covered by somebody else.
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> MTD
> M:      Heiko Schocher <hs at denx.de>
> S:      Maintained
> T:      git git://git.denx.de/u-boot-mtd.git
> F:      drivers/mtd/
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> I think this makes sense.
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> Let's study from linux/MAINTAINERS!
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> MEMORY TECHNOLOGY DEVICES (MTD)
> M:      David Woodhouse <dwmw2 at infradead.org>
> M:      Brian Norris <computersforpeace at gmail.com>
> L:      linux-mtd at lists.infradead.org
> W:      http://www.linux-mtd.infradead.org/
> Q:      http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/linux-mtd/list/
> T:      git git://git.infradead.org/linux-mtd.git
> T:      git git://git.infradead.org/l2-mtd.git
> S:      Maintained
> F:      drivers/mtd/
> F:      include/linux/mtd/
> F:      include/uapi/mtd/

Linux in MTD is shared by two maintainer where whole drivers/mtd

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> [snip]
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> ONENAND FLASH DRIVER
> M:      Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park at samsung.com>
> L:      linux-mtd at lists.infradead.org
> S:      Maintained
> F:      drivers/mtd/onenand/
> F:      include/linux/mtd/onenand*.h
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> BTW, "CFI FLASH" entry is questionable.
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> CFI FLASH
> M:      Stefan Roese <sr at denx.de>
> S:      Maintained
> T:      git git://git.denx.de/u-boot-cfi-flash.git
> F:      drivers/mtd/*
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> Do all the files in drivers/mtd
> belong to CFI FLASH subsystem?
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No - it has cfi, ubifs, nand, sf

thanks!
-- 
Jagan.