From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andi Drebes Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2007 17:20:00 +0000 Subject: Re: A change of approach Message-Id: <200708061920.00504.lists-receive@programmierforen.de> List-Id: References: <20070731220505.GT21219@parisc-linux.org> In-Reply-To: <20070731220505.GT21219@parisc-linux.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.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