From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1391B6A01F; Thu, 21 Dec 2023 10:54:05 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linuxfoundation.org header.i=@linuxfoundation.org header.b="0kd7IsGP" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 06728C433C8; Thu, 21 Dec 2023 10:54:05 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=linuxfoundation.org; s=korg; t=1703156045; bh=dp2uys8U+P3RBcYuFKYoBudb8kPnzegamIvZHp0Hf3I=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=0kd7IsGPpq9pqOLGPSAFP0pP/CgPG2GtyZGQA/ek8eBfLckOoECsKlxHFNaZYuff4 EOxCD1a1p22mBLZYPioA3Qg2syytDn4NPzefANS+Ve+u9pqA6R3j2Ee7gtOCuEA7o/ eg0fbSO/GRlwkYHDcqwQpTJFIl18cDeSxtx6Q3gI= Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2023 11:54:02 +0100 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: Bagas Sanjaya Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linux Networking , Linux Kernel Janitors , Kees Cook , Jakub Kicinski , "David S. Miller" , "Jiri Slaby (SUSE)" , Justin Stitt , Kunwu Chan , Christophe JAILLET , Nathan Chancellor , "Steven Rostedt (Google)" , Karsten Keil , Karsten Keil , YouHong Li Subject: Re: [PATCH net 1/2] MAINTAINERS: Remove Karsten Keil Message-ID: <2023122116-favoring-roulette-554f@gregkh> References: <20231221091419.11764-1-bagasdotme@gmail.com> <20231221091419.11764-2-bagasdotme@gmail.com> <2023122156-diocese-movie-3d75@gregkh> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: On Thu, Dec 21, 2023 at 05:49:54PM +0700, Bagas Sanjaya wrote: > On Thu, Dec 21, 2023 at 10:32:09AM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 21, 2023 at 04:14:18PM +0700, Bagas Sanjaya wrote: > > > He's no longer active maintaining ISDN/mISDN subsystem: his last message > > > on kernel mailing lists was three years ago [1] and last commit activity > > > from him was 1e1589ad8b5cb5 ("mISDN: Support DR6 indication in mISDNipac > > > driver") in 2016 when he gave Acked-by: from his @b1-systems.de address. > > > > > > Move him to CREDITS, as netdev people should already handle ISDN/mISDN > > > patches. > > > > > > Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/0ee243a9-9937-ad26-0684-44b18e772662@linux-pingi.de/ [1] > > > Cc: Karsten Keil > > > Cc: Karsten Keil > > > Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya > > > > Are you sure he's not active? It doesn't take much work to keep an old > > subsystem like this alive, last I remember, real changes were accepted > > just fine. > > As for LKML messages, yes; he doesn't post any new messages since 2020. > > > > > Perhaps just don't send coding style cleanups to old subsystems? :) > > > > I would not take these unless Karsten agrees that he no longer wants to > > maintain this. > > OK, I will send a private message to him asking for continuing maintainer > role. If there's no response from him by the new year, then it's safe to > route this through net tree instead (hence [PATCH net]). Why are you arbritrarily saying that "no response in 2 weeks, during the time of the year almost all of Europe is on vacation, means we drop someone from the MAINTAINERS file"? Please slow down, relax, and don't do this. greg k-h