Re: [PATCH] Firmware Loader is orphan

Horst von Brand
2004-08-19T15:59:19Z

=?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?

> --------------030001090603060008040701
> Content-Type: text/plain;
> name="firmware_loader_orphan.patch"
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
> Content-Disposition: inline;
> filename="firmware_loader_orphan.patch"
>
> --- 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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