[PATCH] Firmware Loader is orphan

[PATCH] Firmware Loader is orphan

[Ramón Rey Vicente]

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Hello.

The author and maintainer of the firmware loader died on May. I think 
this little piece is very important for the kernel. Anybody is taking 
care of firmware loader?
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Ramón Rey Vicente       <ramon dot rey at hispalinux dot es>
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--- linux-2.6-rrey/MAINTAINERS.orig	2004-08-19 01:57:52.405537120 +0200
+++ linux-2.6-rrey/MAINTAINERS	2004-08-19 02:05:25.001988245 +0200
@@ -822,10 +822,8 @@
 S:	Maintained
 
 FIRMWARE LOADER (request_firmware)
-P:	Manuel Estrada Sainz
-M:	ranty@debian.org
 L:	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
-S:	Maintained
+S:	Orphan
 
 FPU EMULATOR
 P:	Bill Metzenthen

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Re: [PATCH] Firmware Loader is orphan

[Horst von Brand]

=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ram=F3n_Rey_Vicente?= <ramon.rey@hispalinux.es> said:
> The author and maintainer of the firmware loader died on May.

Sorry to hear that.

>                                                               I think 
> this little piece is very important for the kernel. Anybody is taking 
> care of firmware loader?

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> --- linux-2.6-rrey/MAINTAINERS.orig	2004-08-19 01:57:52.405537120 +0200
> +++ linux-2.6-rrey/MAINTAINERS	2004-08-19 02:05:25.001988245 +0200
> @@ -822,10 +822,8 @@
>  S:	Maintained
>  
>  FIRMWARE LOADER (request_firmware)
> -P:	Manuel Estrada Sainz
> -M:	ranty@debian.org
>  L:	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> -S:	Maintained
> +S:	Orphan

I's move the data (at least the name) to a THANKS (or some such) file for
people who left as maintainers (for whatever reason). I think they deserve
our lasting gratitude.
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Re: [PATCH] Firmware Loader is orphan

[Alan Cox]

On Iau, 2004-08-19 at 16:58, Horst von Brand wrote:
> I's move the data (at least the name) to a THANKS (or some such) file for
> people who left as maintainers (for whatever reason). I think they deserve
> our lasting gratitude.

CREDITS ?

Re: [PATCH] Firmware Loader is orphan

[Tonnerre]

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Salut,

On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 11:58:59AM -0400, Horst von Brand wrote:
> I's move the data (at least the name) to a THANKS (or some such) file for
> people who left as maintainers (for whatever reason). I think they deserve
> our lasting gratitude.

I think he belongs into CREDITS, just like the late Leonard Zubkoff.

diff -u linux-2.6.8.1/CREDITS~ linux-2.6.8.1/CREDITS
--- linux-2.6.8.1/CREDITS~      2004-08-14 12:55:47.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.8.1/CREDITS       2004-08-20 18:59:27.347605928 +0200
@@ -2838,6 +2838,10 @@
 S: 8006 Zuerich
 S: Switzerland
 
+N: Manuel Estrada Sainz
+E: ranty@debian.org
+D: Firmware loader (request_firmware)
+
 N: Wayne Salamon
 E: wsalamon@tislabs.com
 E: wsalamon@nai.com

			   Tonnerre

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Re: [PATCH] Firmware Loader is orphan

[Jesse Barnes]

On Friday, August 20, 2004 11:00 am, Tonnerre wrote:
> Salut,
>
> On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 11:58:59AM -0400, Horst von Brand wrote:
> > I's move the data (at least the name) to a THANKS (or some such) file for
> > people who left as maintainers (for whatever reason). I think they
> > deserve our lasting gratitude.
>
> I think he belongs into CREDITS, just like the late Leonard Zubkoff.

Adding the fact that they're deceased is probably a good idea, lest people 
email them, expect a response and try to flame them or something (as happened 
recently with Leonard iirc).

Jesse