Hi Greet-san,

> 
> Hi Shimoda-san,
> 
> On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 11:02 AM, yoshihiro shimoda
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> > >>>>>     Er, OK. Could you update MAINTAINERS?
> >> > >>>>there is no entry for renesas driver in MAINTAINERS.
> >> > >>>>Shimoda-san, care to send a patch adding yourself or Morimoto-san as
> >> > >>>>maintainers for Renesas driver and pointing to my tree in kernel.org 
> >> > >>>>?
> 
> > By the way, about a renesas_usbhs maintainer, I don't know clearly.
> > If I do as a renesas_usbhs maintainer:
> > - what should I do as the maintainer?
> >  - I think I should check patches of renesas_usbhs
> >  - And, do I just return  ACK or NACK to the patches?
> 
> As a maintainer, you review all patches for renesas_usbhs, and of these 
> patches
> will have to go through you.
> There are three ways to achieve that:
>   1. You collect all accepted patches, and forward them to GregKH with your
>      Signed-off-by added,
>   2. You collect all accepted ls -lpatches, publish them in a git tree, and
>      ask GregKH to pull a branch or tag from your git tree,
>   3. You ack all accepted patches, so GregKH knows which patches to apply.
> 
> Which way to choose depends on the volume of patches.

Thank you very much for the reply!
I understood what a maintainer should do.
So, I will submit a patch for MAINTAINERS file.

Best regards,
Yoshihiro Shimoda

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> 
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