Re: [dpdk-dev] [EXT] Re: [PATCH] maintainers: Update for OcteonTx2 DMA and EP

[Radha Mohan <mohun106@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Nov 13, 2020 at 2:39 PM Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net> wrote:
>
> 13/11/2020 20:18, Radha Mohan:
> > On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 11:57 PM Mahipal Challa <mchalla@marvell.com> wrote:
> > From: Radha Mohan <mohun106@gmail.com>
> > Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2020 11:44 PM
> > > On Mon, Nov 9, 2020 at 4:20 PM Radha Mohan Chintakuntla <radhac@marvell.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Replace the maintainers for OcteonTx2 DMA and EP drivers.
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Radha Mohan Chintakuntla <radhac@marvell.com>
> [...]
> > > >Adding previous maintainers to ack.
> > > Acked-by: Mahipal Challa <mchalla@marvell.com
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Mahipal
> >
> > Hi Thomas,
> > Could you please pick this patch ?
>
> This low-priority patch has been sent 4 days ago,
> and was acked by only 1 maintainer 3 days ago.
>

It was acked by both the old maintainers Satha Koteshwar and Mahipal
Challa. Maybe both of those emails didn't come on top of each other.

> Why pushing? What is your fear exactly?

Just want to make the transfer of ownership official in the mainline.
There's no fear I just normally wanted to send a reminder to you to
pick as it might be missed inclusion. If there's a guarantee that all
ack'ed patches will go automatically then I won't be sending any
reminder emails in future.

>
> Why the new maintainers candidates have 0 and 2 contributions
> in git history?
>
These drivers requires some maintenance and likely expanded to support
future chips from Marvell. So you will not see contributions right
away.
So to become a maintainer one has to have prior contributions ? Kind
of makes odd sense as these drivers are specific to our chip and we
are changing ownership for maintaining them.
I do not understand why you have an issue here? You don't like
reminding then I understand.

regards,
Radha Mohan