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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Riley@Williams.Name
Subject: Re: MAINTAINERS update.
Date: Sun, 13 May 2007 17:26:13 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4647ACA5.7040901@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070513232953.GJ27604@redhat.com>

Dave Jones wrote:
> 
> That previous entry of MAINTAINERS raised an eyebrow too.
> You, Eric, Andi, and Zach seem to have done more work on 'i386 BOOT CODE'
> in the last few months than I recall Riley doing, well.. since ages.
> Not to belittle whatever work he did, but perhaps his entry belongs
> more in CREDITS than MAINTAINERS.  It felt a little cheeky to be
> messing with someone elses entry though.  Riley?
> 

Riley passed away about a month ago (traffic accident.)

Anyway I have a patch to take over maintainership of that as part of my
rewrite of said code:

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/hpa/linux-2.6-newsetup.git;a=summary

> Perhaps those two entries should just be merged together to become
> "i386 Architecture" too ?

That would not be a bad idea; overall, though, I think a lot more code
should be unified across the entire x86 architecture.

	-hpa

  reply	other threads:[~2007-05-14  0:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-13 23:07 MAINTAINERS update Dave Jones
2007-05-13 23:10 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-13 23:29   ` Dave Jones
2007-05-14  0:26     ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2007-05-15 22:05       ` Soruk
2007-05-16  6:04         ` H. Peter Anvin

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