[RFC PATCH 0/4] Remove some e300/MPC83xx evaluation platforms

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Fri, Mar 3, 2023, at 02:04, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
> 01/03/2023 (Wed 14:23) Christophe Leroy wrote:
>> Le 28/02/2023 ?? 18:51, Arnd Bergmann a ??crit??:
>> Hope it clarifies how those reference boards are used.
>
> It was really useful input and gave an insight into how things get used.
>
> But let me put a slightly different slant on things.  If there is no
> maintainer for the platform/architecture/CPU, then where is the
> obligation for mainline to keep it up to date just for your company to
> use the code/BSP as a reference?
>
> Do they continue to do this for one more year, or three or ...  ???
> Does someone list themselves in MAINTAINERS for arch/powerpc/83xx ?
...
>
> If you see change 0123abcdef breaks boot on your platform, you have a
> legit voice to gripe about it right then and there.  Don't wait!!!

I think the answer here is that Christophe is already the only person
that does this, so he is the de-facto maintainer for ppc32 regardless
of whether he wants himself listed in the file or not:

$ git log --no-merges --format="%an" v5.0.. arch/powerpc/platforms/[458e]* | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | grep -vw 1
     61 Christophe Leroy
     12 Michael Ellerman
     11 Thomas Gleixner
     11 Oliver O'Halloran
     11 Liang He
      7 Uwe Kleine-König
      6 Nick Child
      4 Rasmus Villemoes
      4 Randy Dunlap
      4 Mike Rapoport
      4 Julia Lawall
      4 Andy Shevchenko
      3 Xiaoming Ni
      3 Nicholas Piggin
      3 Marc Zyngier
      3 Christophe JAILLET
      3 Christoph Hellwig
      2 Paul Gortmaker
      2 Mathieu Malaterre
      2 Markus Elfring
      2 Jordan Niethe
      2 Dmitry Torokhov
      2 Arnd Bergmann

Pretty much everyone else on the list above only did treewide
cleanups, dead code removal or compile-time fixes, while Christophe
is the one that fixed machine specific bugs and added new features.

    Arnd