Re: [PATCH v3 6/6] MAINTAINERS: add entry for the RTL8723B rtw88 driver

[Luka Gejak]

September 22, 2026 at 1:35 AM, "Jeff Johnson" <jeff.johnson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


> 
> On 9/21/2026 11:14 AM, Johannes Berg wrote:
> 
> > 
> > On Mon, 2026-09-21 at 16:49 +0000, Luka Gejak wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > It is supposed to work in the same way it works for other driver
> > >  maintainers. I would review patches and provide my acked by or
> > >  reviewed by them and Ping-Ke would apply them to his rtw-next branch.
> > > 
> >  
> >  I don't think we have a lot of folks below the driver maintainers who s
> >  end me pull requests (except Toke maybe?) - but as long as I don't need
> >  to deal with it I'm happy, you can figure it out between yourselves :)
> > 
> For ath.git there are sub-maintainers for ath5k (Multiple), ath9k (Toke),
> carl9170 (Christian), and wcn36xx (Loic).
> 
> Toke has a linux-wireless patchwork account so the ath9k patches are initially
> assigned to him in patchwork, and he Acks on the list and assigns the
> patchwork records to me when he approves patches.
> 
> For the others the maintainers just Ack on the list, and I take them from there.
> 
> So the question is do how do you want to handle this in patchwork?
> 
> /jeff
>

What do you think makes more sense here: patchwork delegate
access like Toke has for ath9k, or on list ack based? I'd lean
towards delegate access if it's not a big ask on your end, but
happy to go with whatever works best operationally for you.

Best regards,
Luka Gejak