From: Robert Richter <rric@kernel.org>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Ian Bridges <icb@fastmail.org>, Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>,
linux-edac@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] EDAC/thunderx: Replace strlcat() with snprintf() and seq_buf
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2026 23:16:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ano_uQtMIjcoFcs9@rric.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260810134506.GAannV4uJN0I1UXh0q@fat_crate.local>
On 10.08.26 06:45:06, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 10, 2026 at 03:27:12PM +0200, Robert Richter wrote:
> > However, the driver has several issues. I asked Marvell a while ago to
> > take over maintainership, but never got a response. I don't have
> > hardware to test changes. If you mean to mark the driver obsolete, I
> > am good with it. On the other hand, the issues found may not actually
> > trigger and only affect a single system. If we can live with it, we
> > could leave it as is.
>
> I am sorting out stuff which needs maintaining from obsolete gunk, which is not
> used anymore and which doesn't need any maintenance effort or no one cares for
> it anymore and there's no point to waste precious resources for.
>
> So I'm going to do this but we can always revert it if someone shows interest.
>
> ---
> Author: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
> Date: Mon Aug 10 06:40:13 2026 -0700
>
> EDAC/thunderx: Orphan it
>
> Robert doesn't have hardware to test patches anymore and no one else has
> shown interest in maintaining this driver, so orphan it, for now at
> least.
>
> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Acked-by: Robert Richter <rric@kernel.org>
>
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index d413dac5c8b3..671515d21bfc 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -9308,9 +9308,8 @@ S: Maintained
> F: drivers/edac/octeon_edac*
>
> EDAC-CAVIUM THUNDERX
> -M: Robert Richter <rric@kernel.org>
> L: linux-edac@vger.kernel.org
> -S: Odd Fixes
> +S: Orphan
> F: drivers/edac/thunderx_edac*
>
> EDAC-CORE
>
> ---
>
> Thx.
>
> --
> Regards/Gruss,
> Boris.
>
> https://people.kernel.org/tglx/notes-about-netiquette
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-08-10 21:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-07-02 6:46 [PATCH] EDAC/thunderx: Replace strlcat() with snprintf() and seq_buf Ian Bridges
2026-07-29 20:57 ` Ian Bridges
2026-07-29 23:00 ` Borislav Petkov
2026-07-30 2:35 ` Ian Bridges
2026-07-30 4:57 ` Borislav Petkov
2026-08-10 13:27 ` Robert Richter
2026-08-10 13:45 ` Borislav Petkov
2026-08-10 21:16 ` Robert Richter [this message]
2026-08-11 0:59 ` Borislav Petkov
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