From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S967875AbXG3TEa (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Jul 2007 15:04:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S966506AbXG3TEV (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Jul 2007 15:04:21 -0400 Received: from mailhost.nmt.edu ([129.138.4.52]:60457 "EHLO mailhost.nmt.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1763159AbXG3TEU (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Jul 2007 15:04:20 -0400 Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 13:04:13 -0600 From: Valerie Henson To: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tulip-users@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: Grant Grundler , Jeff Garzik Subject: [TULIP] Need new maintainer Message-ID: <20070730190412.GA16182@rainbow> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org The Tulip network driver needs a new maintainer! I no longer have time to maintain the Tulip network driver and I'm stepping down. Jeff Garzik would be happy to get volunteers. The only current major outstanding patch I know of is Grant's shutdown race patch, which was incorrectly dropped as obsoleted from -mm (my fault, I was moving at the time): http://www.mail-archive.com/mm-commits@vger.kernel.org/msg12161.html I have a very much non-working patch to do it with the preferred order, ask me for it and I'll see if I can dig it up. It's unpleasant partly because it pointed out a lot of latent bugs (e.g., del_timer_sync() in interrupt context). Also, someone is working on support for an emulated Tulip card (yes, Tulip will _never_ die), so expect possible patches for that. -VAL