Re: [PATCH net] MAINTAINERS: Add myself for stmmac ethernet driver maintainance
Jakub Kicinski <[email protected]> Thu, 23 Jul 2026 07:04:38 -0700
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On Wed, 22 Jul 2026 16:21:24 +0200 Maxime Chevallier wrote: > The stmmac driver based on Synopsys' dwmac IP is used in a very wide > variety of SoCs and is currently very actively used and contributed to. > > It has been orphaned in January 2025 after the previous maintainers > became inactive, but Russell King was providing very valuable reviews > and fixes for the driver at that point. > > Now we're seeing more and more activity on the driver, but are lacking > people to test and review contributions to both glue drivers as well as > core stmmac code. > > I have access to some variety of stmmac-based platforms such as socfpga > CycloneV, imx8mp, some Allwinner SoCs and stm32mp1xx boards that I can > run regression tests on, and I'm offering to step-up as a maintainer for > driver, for the time being at least. > > Let's hope other people will eventually join this effort. Thanks a lot for taking this on :)