From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: linas@austin.ibm.com (Linas Vepstas) Subject: Re: [PATCHSET] libata: PATA driver for Celleb Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 11:14:14 -0600 Message-ID: <20070215171414.GU923@austin.ibm.com> References: <200701260724.l0Q7OISY027645@toshiba.co.jp> <45D3EAA7.80805@garzik.org> <1171525923.20192.243.camel@localhost.localdomain> <200702151141.49708.jens@de.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from e35.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.153]:45420 "EHLO e35.co.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030305AbXBOROW (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Feb 2007 12:14:22 -0500 Received: from westrelay02.boulder.ibm.com (westrelay02.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.11]) by e35.co.us.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l1FHELkP025825 for ; Thu, 15 Feb 2007 12:14:21 -0500 Received: from d03av04.boulder.ibm.com (d03av04.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.170]) by westrelay02.boulder.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v8.2) with ESMTP id l1FHEL06427198 for ; Thu, 15 Feb 2007 10:14:21 -0700 Received: from d03av04.boulder.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d03av04.boulder.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id l1FHEHr5006365 for ; Thu, 15 Feb 2007 10:14:21 -0700 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200702151141.49708.jens@de.ibm.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Jens Osterkamp Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Jeff Garzik , arnd@arndb.de, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, paulus@samba.org, Andrew Morton , alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, James K Lewis On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 11:41:49AM +0100, Jens Osterkamp wrote: > On Thursday 15 February 2007, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > I'm totally confused about who the heck is the spidernet maintainer. > > > > Me too :-) > > > > It's been a bit of a mess. I suggest we get our gear together (Linas, > > Jens, Kou) and provide you a single patch set from a single source in > > the upcoming couple of days coming from the designated maintainer. OK. However, I think the blast of paches is a statistical anomoly, I'm expecting future activity on spidernet to drop to just about zero. > > Jens ? Linas ? Is that ok with you guys ? Who gets to be that > > maintainer ? > > Linas has done a pretty good job on improving the driver in the last half > year or so and he also has access to all the necessary hardware so I think > he would be the right person for the job. It seems I've been nominated twice. Since I'm expecting future activity to drop to zero, how hard can this be? :-) I can send a tested patch series (merging all three sources) immediately, assuming you like the tree these would be based on. Any special instructions or proceedures to follow, any secret initiation rites, hazing, or change of citizenship required? --linas