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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Jingoo Han <jg1.han@samsung.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org,
	'Richard Purdie' <rpurdie@rpsys.net>,
	'Thierry Reding' <thierry.reding@gmail.com>,
	'Tomi Valkeinen' <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com>,
	'Laurent Pinchart' <laurent.pinchart+renesas@ideasonboard.com>,
	'Michael Hennerich' <michael.hennerich@analog.com>,
	'Milo Kim' <milo.kim@ti.com>,
	'Daniel Jeong' <gshark.jeong@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: remove Richard Purdie as backlight maintainer
Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2013 00:43:15 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131003174315.d9aa8af7.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <003801cec093$6b3c1bf0$41b453d0$%han@samsung.com>

On Fri, 04 Oct 2013 08:50:57 +0900 Jingoo Han <jg1.han@samsung.com> wrote:

> On Friday, October 04, 2013 8:21 AM, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Fri, 27 Sep 2013 12:59:28 +0900 Jingoo Han <jg1.han@samsung.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > Remove Richard Purdie as backlight subsystem maintainer, since he
> > > is not responding for a few years.
> > 
> > It's nice to give a person a ./CREDITS entry when we remove them from
> > ./MAINTAINERS.
> 
> However, Richard Purdie still remains as maintainers of other two entries
> as below:
> In this case, is it still necessary give him a ./CREDITS entry?

Necessary?  No.  Nice?  Yes ;) I like to think that it reduces any of
the sting from being removed from MAINTAINERS.  Plus it is more
accurate and costs nothing.


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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Jingoo Han <jg1.han@samsung.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org,
	"'Richard Purdie'" <rpurdie@rpsys.net>,
	"'Thierry Reding'" <thierry.reding@gmail.com>,
	"'Tomi Valkeinen'" <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com>,
	"'Laurent Pinchart'" <laurent.pinchart+renesas@ideasonboard.com>,
	"'Michael Hennerich'" <michael.hennerich@analog.com>,
	"'Milo Kim'" <milo.kim@ti.com>,
	"'Daniel Jeong'" <gshark.jeong@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: remove Richard Purdie as backlight maintainer
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2013 17:43:15 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131003174315.d9aa8af7.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <003801cec093$6b3c1bf0$41b453d0$%han@samsung.com>

On Fri, 04 Oct 2013 08:50:57 +0900 Jingoo Han <jg1.han@samsung.com> wrote:

> On Friday, October 04, 2013 8:21 AM, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Fri, 27 Sep 2013 12:59:28 +0900 Jingoo Han <jg1.han@samsung.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > Remove Richard Purdie as backlight subsystem maintainer, since he
> > > is not responding for a few years.
> > 
> > It's nice to give a person a ./CREDITS entry when we remove them from
> > ./MAINTAINERS.
> 
> However, Richard Purdie still remains as maintainers of other two entries
> as below:
> In this case, is it still necessary give him a ./CREDITS entry?

Necessary?  No.  Nice?  Yes ;) I like to think that it reduces any of
the sting from being removed from MAINTAINERS.  Plus it is more
accurate and costs nothing.


  reply	other threads:[~2013-10-04  0:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-27  3:59 [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: remove Richard Purdie as backlight maintainer Jingoo Han
2013-09-27  3:59 ` Jingoo Han
2013-10-03 23:20 ` Andrew Morton
2013-10-03 23:20   ` Andrew Morton
2013-10-03 23:50   ` Jingoo Han
2013-10-03 23:50     ` Jingoo Han
2013-10-04  0:43     ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2013-10-04  0:43       ` Andrew Morton
2013-10-04  9:55       ` Richard Purdie
2013-10-04  9:55         ` Richard Purdie

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