Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: mark framebuffer as Orphan

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 13:25:49 -0800
Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> wrote:

> From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
> 
> Are we ready to do this?
> I'd love for Tony to return, but he's been missing for awhile now.
> 
> So this give us the following major areas that are marked as Orphan:
> 
> Firmware loader
> Framebuffer
> Serial (8250/16x50)
> 
> and PCMCIA has a Team.  It doesn't seem to be hurting.  :)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
> ---
>  MAINTAINERS |    4 +---
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> --- linux-2.6.20-git9.orig/MAINTAINERS
> +++ linux-2.6.20-git9/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -1321,11 +1321,9 @@ W:	http://www.farsite.co.uk/
>  S:	Supported
>  
>  FRAMEBUFFER LAYER
> -P:	Antonino Daplas
> -M:	adaplas@pol.net
>  L:	linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net (subscribers-only)
>  W:	http://linux-fbdev.sourceforge.net/
> -S:	Maintained
> +S:	Orphan

No, James is keeping an eye on things, but he obviously doesn't have as
much time to work on it as Tony did.

My point was that for bugs such as the one Pavel identified we're no longer
able to palm it off on the maintainer and expect magic to happen.  Either we
all dig in and help out or things don't get fixed.