From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: david@lang.hm
Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] strip: move driver to staging
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:47:34 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091026184734.GA21591@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.0910261013430.11504@asgard.lang.hm>
On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 10:18:20AM -0700, david@lang.hm wrote:
> if someone were to claim 'maintainership' and then do nothing other than
> complain if someone else were to change an API but not fix this in the
> process, how would this be different than the current situation?
A person "claiming maintainership" would then be responsible for keeping
the API up to date and ensuring that the driver worked. To do that,
hardware would probably need to be present.
Do you have this kind of hardware and are willing to accept ownership of
this driver?
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-26 18:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-20 5:17 [PATCH 1/4] strip: move driver to staging John W. Linville
2009-10-20 5:17 ` [PATCH 2/4] arlan: " John W. Linville
[not found] ` <1256015830-12700-3-git-send-email-linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-20 5:17 ` [PATCH 4/4] netwave: " John W. Linville
2009-10-27 20:36 ` Staging: " Greg KH
2009-10-27 21:05 ` John W. Linville
2009-10-27 22:12 ` Greg KH
2009-10-20 16:06 ` [PATCH 1/4] strip: " Randy Dunlap
2009-10-26 16:46 ` John W. Linville
2009-10-26 17:02 ` Randy Dunlap
2009-10-26 18:48 ` Greg KH
2009-10-23 16:10 ` Pavel Machek
2009-10-23 16:54 ` Alan Cox
2009-10-26 16:55 ` John W. Linville
2009-10-26 17:18 ` david
2009-10-26 17:43 ` John W. Linville
2009-10-26 18:47 ` Greg KH [this message]
2009-10-27 4:17 ` david
2009-10-27 5:21 ` David Miller
2009-10-27 8:34 ` Stefan Richter
2009-10-27 14:08 ` Greg KH
2009-10-27 18:39 ` david
2009-10-27 20:38 ` Greg KH
2009-10-27 21:13 ` John W. Linville
2009-10-27 21:32 ` Alan Cox
2009-10-26 17:24 ` Pavel Machek
2009-10-26 17:29 ` Alan Cox
2009-10-26 17:34 ` John W. Linville
2009-10-26 18:48 ` Greg KH
2009-10-26 19:07 ` Joe Perches
2009-10-26 19:17 ` Greg KH
2009-10-26 19:20 ` John W. Linville
2009-10-26 19:36 ` Greg KH
2009-10-26 20:06 ` Joe Perches
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