From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756341AbYEOKo2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 May 2008 06:44:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752365AbYEOKoS (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 May 2008 06:44:18 -0400 Received: from trinity.fluff.org ([89.145.97.151]:47599 "EHLO trinity.fluff.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752144AbYEOKoR (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 May 2008 06:44:17 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 1673 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Thu, 15 May 2008 06:44:17 EDT Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 11:16:38 +0100 To: Jean Delvare Cc: Linux I2C , LKML , Ben Dooks Subject: Re: [i2c] Wanted: i2c subsystem co-maintainer Message-ID: <20080515101638.GC22585@trinity.fluff.org> References: <20080304184512.3f78d296@hyperion.delvare> <20080325095028.07a73b11@hyperion.delvare> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080325095028.07a73b11@hyperion.delvare> X-Disclaimer: These are my views alone. X-URL: http://www.fluff.org/ User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i From: Ben Dooks X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ben@trinity.fluff.org X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on trinity.fluff.org); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 09:50:28AM +0100, Jean Delvare wrote: > On Tue, 4 Mar 2008 18:45:12 +0100, Jean Delvare wrote: > > I have a hard time maintaining the i2c subsystem alone. New drivers > > and, more importantly, subsystem evolutions are submitted much faster > > than I can review and merge them. I am hearing complaints about this. > > It has been lasting for a while now and it doesn't seem like the > > situation is going to improve. Thus, I think it would be better if > > someone was co-maintaining the i2c subsystem with me. > > > > So, if anyone is interested in co-maintaining the i2c subsystem with > > me, please let me know. The ideal candidate would come from the > > embedded world, as I have absolutely no experience with this myself and > > most of the new drivers are for embedded devices, and should have > > contributed to the kernel in a significant way already. > > Ben Dooks agreed to become my co-maintainer for the i2c subsystem. In > particular, Ben will help with drivers for embedded systems, of which > my experience is inexistent. Thanks Ben and welcome on board! > > Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare Acked-by: Ben Dooks > --- > Ben, please give by your ack on this patch, then I will push it > upstream. Sorry, my main mailbox got hit by a major spam flood, have mostly sorted this out now. > > MAINTAINERS | 2 ++ > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) > > --- linux-2.6.25-rc6.orig/MAINTAINERS 2008-03-21 10:58:23.000000000 +0100 > +++ linux-2.6.25-rc6/MAINTAINERS 2008-03-23 15:16:11.000000000 +0100 > @@ -1883,6 +1883,8 @@ S: Maintained > I2C SUBSYSTEM > P: Jean Delvare > M: khali@linux-fr.org > +P: Ben Dooks > +M: ben-linux@fluff.org > L: i2c@lm-sensors.org > T: quilt http://khali.linux-fr.org/devel/linux-2.6/jdelvare-i2c/ > S: Maintained > > -- > Jean Delvare -- -- Ben Q: What's a light-year? A: One-third less calories than a regular year.