From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754113AbbEUGJo (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 May 2015 02:09:44 -0400 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:45643 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751518AbbEUGJm (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 May 2015 02:09:42 -0400 Date: Wed, 20 May 2015 23:09:41 -0700 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: Willy Tarreau Cc: Richard Weinberger , "devel@driverdev.osuosl.org" , Alan Cox , Wolfram Sang , LKML , Tim Waugh , Willy Tarreau , Sudip Mukherjee , Jean Delvare , linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] MAINTAINERS: maintain parport Message-ID: <20150521060941.GA30864@kroah.com> References: <1432135622-8288-1-git-send-email-sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com> <1432135622-8288-7-git-send-email-sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com> <20150521055118.GC8344@1wt.eu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20150521055118.GC8344@1wt.eu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 07:51:18AM +0200, Willy Tarreau wrote: > On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 05:46:44PM +0200, Richard Weinberger wrote: > > On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 5:27 PM, Sudip Mukherjee > > wrote: > > > Lets give the parport subsystem a proper name and start > > > maintaining the files. > > > > Excuse me, but usually someone takes over the maintainer role after > > proving that he > > cares for a sub system for a certain period of time. > > Or did I miss something? > > Sudip has been volunteering for fixing this code which is marked > as "orphan". So whatever his experience and care in this area, > it will be better for the driver to have a maintainer than none. > > Good luck Sudip, as drivers which have become orphans are probably > the ones that deserve the least love :-) I agree. I've been "baby-sitting" this subsystem for a long time now. If Sudip wants to take it on, and based on his recent patches it looks like he does, I'm all for him to be the maintainer of it. So this patch in the series is fine with me, I'll apply it when the rest of this series gets merged. thanks, greg k-h