Re: [PATCH] tap:remove maintainer

[Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>]

On 12/2/2021 5:15 PM, Wiles, Keith wrote:
> I no longer have the bandwidth to support the TAP PMD, so I am
> removing myself as the maintainer so as to not hold up commits.
> 

Thanks Keith, introducing this PMD and maintaining up until now, when
you have more time we would like to see you back.

Meanwhile some features of the PMD like rte_flow, eBPF (for RSS),
netlink, Rx interrupt, TC support, etc.. introduced by 6wind/Nvidia,
and these features makes majority of the driver.

Pascal, Ophir, Moti, do you still have use cases for these features?
Can you please help maintaining the driver?

Thanks,
ferruh

> Signed-off-by: Wiles, Keith <keith.wiles@intel.com>
> ---
>   MAINTAINERS | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index 18d9edaf88..b43285b6ab 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -989,7 +989,7 @@ F: doc/guides/nics/pcap_ring.rst
>   F: doc/guides/nics/features/pcap.ini
> 
>   Tap PMD
> -M: Keith Wiles <keith.wiles@intel.com>
> +M:
>   F: drivers/net/tap/
>   F: doc/guides/nics/tap.rst
>   F: doc/guides/nics/features/tap.ini
> --
> 2.30.1 (Apple Git-130)
>