From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Brownell Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 04:20:46 +0000 Subject: Re: Linux-hotplug needs an official maintainer. Am I right? Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org > > 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. _______________________________________________ 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