From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Miles Lane Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 08:44:08 +0000 Subject: Linux-hotplug needs an official maintainer. Am I right? Message-Id: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org Hi, Currently we have been sending some of our general hotplug architecture patches to Johannes Erdfelt for blessing and forwarding to Linus. This is due to historical reasons -- David Brownell did a lot of the early work and his test implementation was for USB. Since hotplug implementation has now, most certainly, expanded far beyond the scope of USB, it would seem to make sense that we choose someone to be the point person for patch submission. Since the hotplug implementation effort will include some ongoing general architecture work in addition to bus-specific work, perhaps we need a maintainer for the generic pieces, while the bus-specific patches get routed through the bus maintainers. Does this make sense? Possible candidates for generic hotplug architecture maintainer would seem to include: David Brownell Andrew Morton Adam Richter Jeff Garzik Kieth Owens I am quite sure I am leaving a few people out, so please speak up if you want the position! This list of names is simply a product of my observation about who has been doing the most in designing the hotplug architecture and has been coding large chunks of the current implementation. What would seem most important is that whoever takes the job have Linus and Alan's trust in regards to making good design decisions and having great code review abilities. Obviously, having time to devote to this work would be helpful, too. I hope this helps, Miles _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel