I am the author of dwmac-loongson. The patch set was merged several
months ago. For a long time hereafter, I don't wish stmmac to remain
in an orphan state perpetually. Therefore, if no one is willing to
assume the role of the maintainer, I would like to be responsible for
the subsequent maintenance of stmmac. Meanwhile, Huacai is willing to
become a reviewer.

About myself, I submitted my first kernel patch on January 4th, 2021.
I was still reviewing new patches last week, and I will remain active
on the mailing list in the future.

Co-developed-by: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Yanteng Si <si.yanteng@linux.dev>
---
 MAINTAINERS | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 481b2dac1716..9e754ffa8ac4 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -22677,8 +22677,10 @@ F:	Documentation/devicetree/bindings/phy/st,stm32mp25-combophy.yaml
 F:	drivers/phy/st/phy-stm32-combophy.c
 
 STMMAC ETHERNET DRIVER
+M:	Yanteng Si <si.yanteng@linux.dev>
+R:	Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@kernel.org>
 L:	netdev@vger.kernel.org
-S:	Orphan
+S:	Maintained
 F:	Documentation/networking/device_drivers/ethernet/stmicro/
 F:	drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/
 
-- 
2.43.0

On Fri, Jan 10, 2025 at 10:49:43PM +0800, Yanteng Si wrote:
> I am the author of dwmac-loongson. The patch set was merged several
> months ago. For a long time hereafter, I don't wish stmmac to remain
> in an orphan state perpetually. Therefore, if no one is willing to
> assume the role of the maintainer, I would like to be responsible for
> the subsequent maintenance of stmmac. Meanwhile, Huacai is willing to
> become a reviewer.
> 
> About myself, I submitted my first kernel patch on January 4th, 2021.
> I was still reviewing new patches last week, and I will remain active
> on the mailing list in the future.
> 
> Co-developed-by: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Yanteng Si <si.yanteng@linux.dev>

Hi Yanteng

Thanks for volunteering for this. Your experience adding loongson
support will be useful here. But with a driver of this complexity, and
the number of different vendors using it, i think it would be good if
you first established a good reputation for doing the work before we
add you to the Maintainers. There are a number of stmmac patches on
the list at the moment, please actually do the job of being a
Maintainer and spend some time review them.

A Synopsis engineer has also said he would start doing Maintainer
work. Hopefully in the end we can add you both to MAINTAINERS.

	Andrew

On Fri, 10 Jan 2025 18:22:03 +0100 Andrew Lunn wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 10, 2025 at 10:49:43PM +0800, Yanteng Si wrote:
> > I am the author of dwmac-loongson. The patch set was merged several
> > months ago. For a long time hereafter, I don't wish stmmac to remain
> > in an orphan state perpetually. Therefore, if no one is willing to
> > assume the role of the maintainer, I would like to be responsible for
> > the subsequent maintenance of stmmac. Meanwhile, Huacai is willing to
> > become a reviewer.
> > 
> > About myself, I submitted my first kernel patch on January 4th, 2021.
> > I was still reviewing new patches last week, and I will remain active
> > on the mailing list in the future.
> > 
> > Co-developed-by: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@kernel.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@kernel.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Yanteng Si <si.yanteng@linux.dev>  
> 
> Thanks for volunteering for this. Your experience adding loongson
> support will be useful here. But with a driver of this complexity, and
> the number of different vendors using it, i think it would be good if
> you first established a good reputation for doing the work before we
> add you to the Maintainers. There are a number of stmmac patches on
> the list at the moment, please actually do the job of being a
> Maintainer and spend some time review them.
> 
> A Synopsis engineer has also said he would start doing Maintainer
> work. Hopefully in the end we can add you both to MAINTAINERS.

+1, thanks a lot for volunteering! There are 22 patches for stmmac
pending review in patchwork, so please don't hesitate and start
reviewing and testing.

Hi Jakub, Andrew,

On 1/11/25 08:54, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Jan 2025 18:22:03 +0100 Andrew Lunn wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 10, 2025 at 10:49:43PM +0800, Yanteng Si wrote:
>>> I am the author of dwmac-loongson. The patch set was merged several
>>> months ago. For a long time hereafter, I don't wish stmmac to remain
>>> in an orphan state perpetually. Therefore, if no one is willing to
>>> assume the role of the maintainer, I would like to be responsible for
>>> the subsequent maintenance of stmmac. Meanwhile, Huacai is willing to
>>> become a reviewer.
>>>
>>> About myself, I submitted my first kernel patch on January 4th, 2021.
>>> I was still reviewing new patches last week, and I will remain active
>>> on the mailing list in the future.
>>>
>>> Co-developed-by: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@kernel.org>
>>> Signed-off-by: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@kernel.org>
>>> Signed-off-by: Yanteng Si <si.yanteng@linux.dev>
>> Thanks for volunteering for this. Your experience adding loongson
>> support will be useful here. But with a driver of this complexity, and
>> the number of different vendors using it, i think it would be good if
>> you first established a good reputation for doing the work before we
>> add you to the Maintainers. There are a number of stmmac patches on
>> the list at the moment, please actually do the job of being a
>> Maintainer and spend some time review them.
>>
>> A Synopsis engineer has also said he would start doing Maintainer
>> work. Hopefully in the end we can add you both to MAINTAINERS.
> +1, thanks a lot for volunteering! There are 22 patches for stmmac
> pending review in patchwork, so please don't hesitate and start
> reviewing and testing.

Okay, thank you for your encouragement.

In the following period of time, I will try to review and

test the patches of stmmac.


Thanks,

Yanteng

On Sat, Jan 11, 2025 at 10:11 PM Yanteng Si <si.yanteng@linux.dev> wrote:
>
> Hi Jakub, Andrew,
>
> On 1/11/25 08:54, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> > On Fri, 10 Jan 2025 18:22:03 +0100 Andrew Lunn wrote:
> >> On Fri, Jan 10, 2025 at 10:49:43PM +0800, Yanteng Si wrote:
> >>> I am the author of dwmac-loongson. The patch set was merged several
> >>> months ago. For a long time hereafter, I don't wish stmmac to remain
> >>> in an orphan state perpetually. Therefore, if no one is willing to
> >>> assume the role of the maintainer, I would like to be responsible for
> >>> the subsequent maintenance of stmmac. Meanwhile, Huacai is willing to
> >>> become a reviewer.
> >>>
> >>> About myself, I submitted my first kernel patch on January 4th, 2021.
> >>> I was still reviewing new patches last week, and I will remain active
> >>> on the mailing list in the future.
> >>>
> >>> Co-developed-by: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@kernel.org>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@kernel.org>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Yanteng Si <si.yanteng@linux.dev>
> >> Thanks for volunteering for this. Your experience adding loongson
> >> support will be useful here. But with a driver of this complexity, and
> >> the number of different vendors using it, i think it would be good if
> >> you first established a good reputation for doing the work before we
> >> add you to the Maintainers. There are a number of stmmac patches on
> >> the list at the moment, please actually do the job of being a
> >> Maintainer and spend some time review them.
> >>
> >> A Synopsis engineer has also said he would start doing Maintainer
> >> work. Hopefully in the end we can add you both to MAINTAINERS.
> > +1, thanks a lot for volunteering! There are 22 patches for stmmac
> > pending review in patchwork, so please don't hesitate and start
> > reviewing and testing.
>
> Okay, thank you for your encouragement.
>
> In the following period of time, I will try to review and
>
> test the patches of stmmac.
I can help Yanteng to review patches, and I also have some stmmac
patches to be submit.

Huacai

>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Yanteng
>