From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Willy Tarreau Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] MAINTAINERS: maintain parport Date: Thu, 21 May 2015 07:51:18 +0200 Message-ID: <20150521055118.GC8344@1wt.eu> References: <1432135622-8288-1-git-send-email-sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com> <1432135622-8288-7-git-send-email-sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: driverdev-devel-bounces@linuxdriverproject.org Sender: "devel" To: Richard Weinberger Cc: "devel@driverdev.osuosl.org" , Alan Cox , Wolfram Sang , Greg Kroah-Hartman , LKML , Tim Waugh , Willy Tarreau , Sudip Mukherjee , Jean Delvare , linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 05:46:44PM +0200, Richard Weinberger wrote: > On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 5:27 PM, Sudip Mukherjee > wrote: > > Lets give the parport subsystem a proper name and start > > maintaining the files. > > Excuse me, but usually someone takes over the maintainer role after > proving that he > cares for a sub system for a certain period of time. > Or did I miss something? Sudip has been volunteering for fixing this code which is marked as "orphan". So whatever his experience and care in this area, it will be better for the driver to have a maintainer than none. Good luck Sudip, as drivers which have become orphans are probably the ones that deserve the least love :-) Willy From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755038AbbEUFvo (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 May 2015 01:51:44 -0400 Received: from wtarreau.pck.nerim.net ([62.212.114.60]:43395 "EHLO 1wt.eu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753638AbbEUFvj (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 May 2015 01:51:39 -0400 Date: Thu, 21 May 2015 07:51:18 +0200 From: Willy Tarreau To: Richard Weinberger Cc: Sudip Mukherjee , Tim Waugh , Jean Delvare , Wolfram Sang , Willy Tarreau , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Alan Cox , LKML , linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org, "devel@driverdev.osuosl.org" Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] MAINTAINERS: maintain parport Message-ID: <20150521055118.GC8344@1wt.eu> References: <1432135622-8288-1-git-send-email-sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com> <1432135622-8288-7-git-send-email-sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 05:46:44PM +0200, Richard Weinberger wrote: > On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 5:27 PM, Sudip Mukherjee > wrote: > > Lets give the parport subsystem a proper name and start > > maintaining the files. > > Excuse me, but usually someone takes over the maintainer role after > proving that he > cares for a sub system for a certain period of time. > Or did I miss something? Sudip has been volunteering for fixing this code which is marked as "orphan". So whatever his experience and care in this area, it will be better for the driver to have a maintainer than none. Good luck Sudip, as drivers which have become orphans are probably the ones that deserve the least love :-) Willy