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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2013 00:43:15 +0000
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: remove Richard Purdie as backlight maintainer
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To: Jingoo Han <jg1.han@samsung.com>
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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.