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

[Luka Gejak]

September 22, 2026 at 03:28, "Ping-Ke Shih" <pkshih@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


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> Luka Gejak <luka.gejak@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > September 22, 2026 at 1:35 AM, "Jeff Johnson" <jeff.johnson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> >  On 9/21/2026 11:14 AM, Johannes Berg wrote:
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> >  > 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.
> > 
> I'm happy that people join rtw88 reviewers. 
> 
> Personally I prefer people give Reviewed-by tag to the patches, and
> I can myself take the patches by patchwork state and send pull-request
> to Johannes. 
> 
> With additional flows of patchwork and pull-request, it looks much
> hard to maintain, since I don't think there will be a lot of patches of
> drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/rtw8723b*.{c,h}
> 
> By the way, if you are interested in rtw88, maybe add a "R:"
> entry to be a reviewer of rtw88?
> 
> Ping-Ke
>

Hi Ping-Ke,

I agree that approach is simpler and I am perfectly fine with
it, if it works better for you. And about being rtw88 reviewer: I
would happily take that role, so I will send a separate patch
outside this series.

Best regards,
Luka Gejak