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From: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux-hotplug needs an official maintainer.  Am I right?
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 04:20:46 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-hotplug-97970645305576@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-hotplug-97963444801580@msgid-missing>

> > 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?

I'm not sure we know yet whether Linus is looking for that.  And
there really aren't many "generic" pieces; call_usermodehelper()
is about all, but linux-hotplug can't own "kmod.c" (I'd suspect).

The issue I see is the need to make sure the coordination gets
done -- like updating modutils before integrating an ABI change.
And that seems like a pretty broad Linux development issue.


> If David doesn't want to do it, I'll volunteer.  He has done the most
> work on it so far and deserves it.

Or maybe a break from it?  :-)  Thanks!  I'd like to hear from
Linus on this topic before I say more.

- Dave


> However, remember that the maintainer tends to have development time
> decrease, just ask Randy about being the USB maintainer :)
>
> Also this looks like more of a coordination job, as all of the
> individual pieces are all covered by other people, and the main job will
> be notifying the current maintainers, and getting their buy in.




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  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-01-17  4:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-01-16  8:44 Linux-hotplug needs an official maintainer. Am I right? Miles Lane
2001-01-16 16:29 ` Greg KH
2001-01-17  4:20 ` David Brownell [this message]
2001-01-17  4:50 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-01-17  4:57 ` Adam J. Richter
2001-01-17  7:37 ` David Hinds

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