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From: Andi Drebes <lists-receive@programmierforen.de>
To: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: A change of approach
Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2007 17:20:00 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200708061920.00504.lists-receive@programmierforen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070731220505.GT21219@parisc-linux.org>

Hi Darren,

> > A better approach for the janitors to take would be to claim *a driver*,
> > and do everything on the todo list to it (as a series of patches,
> > obviously).  And fix up things that aren't on the todo list too, when
> > you notice them.
> 
> I was just wondering about finding an unmaintained driver. Should we
> just look for
> stuff marked as Orphan in the MAINTAINERS file or is there
> another/better list/way
> to find an un-maintained driver that we shuld be made aware of?

I don't think that the driver definitely has to be unmaintained in order to be 
chosen by a kernel janitor. If you pick a driver that is currently 
maintained, you could do the janitorial work and send a series of patches to 
the maintainer and to the list. I think a maintainer would appreciate this 
because somebody does the "dirty work".

	Andi

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-08-06 17:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-31 22:05 A change of approach Matthew Wilcox
2007-08-04  6:30 ` Darren Jenkins
2007-08-06 17:20 ` Andi Drebes [this message]
2007-08-06 22:59 ` Matthew Wilcox
2007-08-07  7:05 ` Thomas Petazzoni

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