Re: [PATCH 1/2] Add new sony laptop drivers maintainer

Mattia Dongili
2007-02-09T14:01:31Z

On Fri, February 9, 2007 2:34 pm, Stelian Pop said:
> Le vendredi 09 février 2007 à 01:44 -0500, Len Brown a écrit :
>> On Thursday 08 February 2007 14:16, malattia@linux.it wrote:
>> > From: Mattia Dongili <malattia@linux.it>
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Mattia Dongili <malattia@linux.it>
>> > ---
>> > MAINTAINERS | 2 ++
>> > 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>> >
>> > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
>> > index efca26a..ec97723 100644
>> > --- a/MAINTAINERS
>> > +++ b/MAINTAINERS
>> > @@ -3012,6 +3012,8 @@ S: Maintained
>> > SONY VAIO CONTROL DEVICE DRIVER
>> > P: Stelian Pop
>> > M: stelian@popies.net
>> > +P: Mattia Dongili
>> > +M: malattia@linux.it
>> > W: http://popies.net/sonypi/
>> > S: Maintained
>>
>> Stelian, are you still actively maintaining Sony support,
>
> Actively definately not, though I still answer a lot of support
> questions about sonypi.
>
> I even receive patches from time to time :)
>
>> or should we simply replace your name here with Mattia?
>
>>From what I recall, Mattia took over sony_acpi but didn't want to handle
> sonypi as well, at least not for the time being.
>
> If he changed his mind I'm hapily handing over the maintenance to him.
>
> If not, maybe the MAINTAINERS entry should be clarified to say that
> Mattia maintains sony_acpi and sonypi is currently not maintained.

Well, I'd hate losing possibly useful patches because the driver results
unmaintained. :)
Sooo... updated MAINTAINERS patch will follow soon.

One question though: which subsystem should sonypi patches flow through?

--
mattia
:wq!

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html