Is Cadence PCIe IP orphaned?

Posted by Bjorn Helgaas 1 year, 12 months ago

Tom Joseph <tjoseph@cadence.com> is listed as the maintainer of the
Cadence PCIe IP, but email to that address bounces and lore has no
correspondence from Tom in the past two years
(https://lore.kernel.org/all/?q=f%3Atjoseph).

Does anybody want to step up to maintain this?  Should we apply a
patch like the one below?

Bjorn


diff --git a/CREDITS b/CREDITS
index f33a33fd2371..55be8af1c74f 100644
--- a/CREDITS
+++ b/CREDITS
@@ -1855,6 +1855,10 @@ D: Fedora kernel maintenance (2003-2014).
 D: 'Trinity' and similar fuzz testing work.
 D: Misc/Other.
 
+N: Tom Joseph
+E: tjoseph@cadence.com
+D: Cadence PCIe driver
+
 N: Martin Josfsson
 E: gandalf@wlug.westbo.se
 P: 1024D/F6B6D3B1 7610 7CED 5C34 4AA6 DBA2  8BE1 5A6D AF95 F6B6 D3B1
diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 97f51d5ec1cf..595aa56acde4 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -16511,11 +16511,10 @@ F:	Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pci/pci-armada8k.txt
 F:	drivers/pci/controller/dwc/pcie-armada8k.c
 
 PCI DRIVER FOR CADENCE PCIE IP
-M:	Tom Joseph <tjoseph@cadence.com>
 L:	linux-pci@vger.kernel.org
-S:	Maintained
+S:	Orphan
 F:	Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pci/cdns,*
-F:	drivers/pci/controller/cadence/
+F:	drivers/pci/controller/cadence/*cadence*
 
 PCI DRIVER FOR FREESCALE LAYERSCAPE
 M:	Minghuan Lian <minghuan.Lian@nxp.com>

Re: Is Cadence PCIe IP orphaned?

Posted by Li Chen 1 year, 12 months ago

Hi Bjorn,

 ---- On Thu, 28 Dec 2023 08:41:32 -0500  Bjorn Helgaas  wrote --- 
 > Tom Joseph tjoseph@cadence.com> is listed as the maintainer of the
 > Cadence PCIe IP, but email to that address bounces and lore has no
 > correspondence from Tom in the past two years
 > (https://lore.kernel.org/all/?q=f%3Atjoseph).
 > 
 > Does anybody want to step up to maintain this?  Should we apply a
 > patch like the one below?

AFAIK, Cadence people are preparing to upstream their Gen5 controller and PHY drivers. They may update the maintainers when they do so.

Regards,
Li

Re: Is Cadence PCIe IP orphaned?

Posted by Bjorn Helgaas 1 year, 11 months ago

On Fri, Dec 29, 2023 at 04:46:11AM -0500, Li Chen wrote:
>  ---- On Thu, 28 Dec 2023 08:41:32 -0500  Bjorn Helgaas  wrote --- 
>  > Tom Joseph tjoseph@cadence.com> is listed as the maintainer of the
>  > Cadence PCIe IP, but email to that address bounces and lore has no
>  > correspondence from Tom in the past two years
>  > (https://lore.kernel.org/all/?q=f%3Atjoseph).
>  > 
>  > Does anybody want to step up to maintain this?  Should we apply a
>  > patch like the one below?
> 
> AFAIK, Cadence people are preparing to upstream their Gen5
> controller and PHY drivers. They may update the maintainers when
> they do so.

I hope so.  In the meantime, I applied the patch below to for-linus
for v6.7.  I don't think there's value in keeping an email address
that goes nowhere.

Bjorn


commit 54d52fb6fe70 ("MAINTAINERS: Orphan Cadence PCIe IP")
Author: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Date:   Tue Dec 26 18:43:03 2023 -0600

    MAINTAINERS: Orphan Cadence PCIe IP
    
    Tom Joseph <tjoseph@cadence.com> is listed as the maintainer of the Cadence
    PCIe IP, but email to that address bounces and lore has no correspondence
    from Tom in the past two years
    (https://lore.kernel.org/all/?q=f%3Atjoseph).
    
    Mark the Cadence IP orphaned and add Tom to CREDITS.
    
    Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>


diff --git a/CREDITS b/CREDITS
index f33a33fd2371..55be8af1c74f 100644
--- a/CREDITS
+++ b/CREDITS
@@ -1855,6 +1855,10 @@ D: Fedora kernel maintenance (2003-2014).
 D: 'Trinity' and similar fuzz testing work.
 D: Misc/Other.
 
+N: Tom Joseph
+E: tjoseph@cadence.com
+D: Cadence PCIe driver
+
 N: Martin Josfsson
 E: gandalf@wlug.westbo.se
 P: 1024D/F6B6D3B1 7610 7CED 5C34 4AA6 DBA2  8BE1 5A6D AF95 F6B6 D3B1
diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 97f51d5ec1cf..595aa56acde4 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -16511,11 +16511,10 @@ F:	Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pci/pci-armada8k.txt
 F:	drivers/pci/controller/dwc/pcie-armada8k.c
 
 PCI DRIVER FOR CADENCE PCIE IP
-M:	Tom Joseph <tjoseph@cadence.com>
 L:	linux-pci@vger.kernel.org
-S:	Maintained
+S:	Orphan
 F:	Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pci/cdns,*
-F:	drivers/pci/controller/cadence/
+F:	drivers/pci/controller/cadence/*cadence*
 
 PCI DRIVER FOR FREESCALE LAYERSCAPE
 M:	Minghuan Lian <minghuan.Lian@nxp.com>