From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from layka.disroot.org (layka.disroot.org [178.21.23.139]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CC0E31CDFA7; Wed, 23 Oct 2024 16:28:50 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=178.21.23.139 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1729700934; cv=none; b=SQMC0TuUwjqVnNHzfMtYIBtS0I6lf0es32nuJbgCWALvWMm4VK8FYr8dt/CM9ylh/+Kwd2HdqKallVaoPsHs70zH13bqjozl8P3i0G3s+hxExny86gURHlHXwRnxRL2d/VjTsnOK6HOniIlXj+1rlh1KC8pyvez3dhQLjncXv4w= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1729700934; c=relaxed/simple; bh=ImGCMCLcj/skCiYbANA7Nn2kAh541W4YFyorni/4W34=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=Q+y91WcOkYhHbSmdH2D9tRbYrdWM8GalV3s3Fol55u2mAO2sP17Yn+OMROlMZNM+h8LsqGfoRU/eY8Ulvxz1802AL/5TW/xYSz2r3b/wBXAgnryV4rpcdY4Z0du5cIMJ1BAFqQw0sJ9Qcb/vkRSziB0XCSKkgSkUs7HQHNRtr9Q= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=reject dis=none) header.from=disroot.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=disroot.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=disroot.org header.i=@disroot.org header.b=mBhD5Z2i; arc=none smtp.client-ip=178.21.23.139 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=reject dis=none) header.from=disroot.org Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=disroot.org Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=disroot.org header.i=@disroot.org header.b="mBhD5Z2i" Received: from mail01.disroot.lan (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by disroot.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E875424F55; Wed, 23 Oct 2024 18:23:23 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: SPAM Filter at disroot.org Received: from layka.disroot.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (disroot.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavis, port 10024) with ESMTP id LM4QKJJ_KumL; Wed, 23 Oct 2024 18:23:23 +0200 (CEST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=disroot.org; s=mail; t=1729700603; bh=ImGCMCLcj/skCiYbANA7Nn2kAh541W4YFyorni/4W34=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To; b=mBhD5Z2iVFfmKpdSW/evjvBUJawTiTTumRRO/Q+FtBNYlc+tp3mwM4tCBMcXP/Hvh 5l+8+NeYW5sllWZuLhhLWUGokX3pZNdf9ZZWbb+vKUjjDiu3AXuHz5BGJa8Lw/Wc4Z 4mTOtkQR9Xc2DESVrl5IcQ3Oo/Z1IPJjJERSmoIu5Rhk2RZ+Izzf3gqLT9EdPE8y8k nvFCD8bkddNgrha80K6ja47euJ3Pp9jmZhFiOIAuOzrNXQuKQch1CWQsu3Uqta8WG4 AYKkovqFgO11xipB9v5pp7TPiGHCF36nhchbDp1B0i8owc4T+PmVTKNXgM9BASQ/Sx qygChoYVCzn9A== Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2024 16:22:58 +0000 From: Yao Zi To: Kexy Biscuit , jeffbai@aosc.io, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, wangyuli@uniontech.com, torvalds@linux-foundation.org Cc: aospan@netup.ru, conor.dooley@microchip.com, ddrokosov@sberdevices.ru, dmaengine@vger.kernel.org, dushistov@mail.ru, fancer.lancer@gmail.com, geert@linux-m68k.org, hoan@os.amperecomputing.com, ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru, linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-fpga@vger.kernel.org, linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org, linux-hwmon@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-iio@vger.kernel.org, linux-media@vger.kernel.org, linux-mips@vger.kernel.org, linux-renesas-soc@vger.kernel.org, linux-spi@vger.kernel.org, manivannan.sadhasivam@linaro.org, mattst88@gmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, nikita@trvn.ru, ntb@lists.linux.dev, patches@lists.linux.dev, richard.henderson@linaro.org, s.shtylyov@omp.ru, serjk@netup.ru, shc_work@mail.ru, tsbogend@alpha.franken.de, v.georgiev@metrotek.ru, wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com, xeb@mail.ru Subject: Re: [PATCH] Revert "MAINTAINERS: Remove some entries due to various compliance requirements." Message-ID: References: <20241023080935.2945-2-kexybiscuit@aosc.io> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-fpga@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20241023080935.2945-2-kexybiscuit@aosc.io> On Wed, Oct 23, 2024 at 04:09:34PM +0800, Kexy Biscuit wrote: > Are the "compliance requirements" documented on docs.kernel.org? Who are > responsible for them? Are all that are responsible employees of > The Linux Foundation, which is regulated by the U.S. legislature? These should be answered publicly, but IMHO too emotional to be included in commit message. As a newcoming contributor, I work on some ARM SoCs unpaid. It's really a neat thing to write useful stuff for others, but this sort of removal is weakening my and definitely others' trust to maintainers: people's rights to maintain stuff written by themselves got removed silencely. It doesn't sound like a good sign to me. We need an explanation. The patch except the last paragraph looks good to me. Reviewed-by: Yao Zi