From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sudip Mukherjee Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2016 15:06:55 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: add myself as maintainer of fbdev Message-Id: <20161221150654.GA14815@sudip-tp> List-Id: References: <2069699.WOeY4a5XzP@amdc3058> In-Reply-To: <2069699.WOeY4a5XzP@amdc3058> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , akpm@linux-foundation.org Cc: Daniel Vetter , linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org, Tomi Valkeinen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 03:45:47PM +0100, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > I would like to help with fbdev maintenance. I can dedicate some time > for reviewing and handling patches but won't have time for much more. > I thought usually someone takes over the maintainer role after proving that he cares for a subsystem for a certain period of time. I know Bartlomiej is here for a long time, but fbdev?? I know no one can replace Tomi here. With full respect to Bartlomiej, my personal opinion - I will prefer to have someone as the maintainer who has worked with framebuffer devices before. regards sudip