Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: scd30: orphan the driver

[Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>]

On Wed, 6 May 2026 13:58:46 -0500
Maxwell Doose <m32285159@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, May 6, 2026 at 1:30 PM Stepan Ionichev <sozdayvek@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > The maintainer email tomasz.duszynski@octakon.com bounces with
> > "The email account that you tried to reach does not exist", and
> > the author has had no commits in the kernel tree for years. The
> > driver is in practice maintained on an ad-hoc basis by the IIO
> > subsystem maintainers and contributors who happen to send patches
> > against it.
> >
> > Drop the stale M: line and mark the entry as Orphan so that future
> > patch submitters and get_maintainer.pl no longer try to deliver
> > mail to a dead address.
> >
> > The F: entries are kept so MAINTAINERS still describes the file
> > set covered by the IIO subsystem (linux-iio@vger.kernel.org).
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Stepan Ionichev <sozdayvek@gmail.com>
> > ---
> >  MAINTAINERS | 3 +--
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >  
> [snip]
> >  
> 
> Hi Stepan, Jonathan,
> 
> I saw this was getting orphaned, and I was wondering if I could step
> up as maintainer. I think it would be an interesting challenge but I
> think I could do it, I've been doing a whole lot of stuff across iio.
> I don't have the hardware but I'd be happy to step up to keep this
> driver up-to-date.
> 
> best regards,
> max

Fine by me.  It is a reasonably easy to get part so if anything complex
comes up might be worth getting one.  Feel free to shout if that becomes
necessary and you need help getting hold of it.

Jonathan