From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161640AbXBOX1T (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Feb 2007 18:27:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161627AbXBOX1T (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Feb 2007 18:27:19 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.24]:38549 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161640AbXBOX1S (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Feb 2007 18:27:18 -0500 Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 15:27:08 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Randy Dunlap Cc: lkml , linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: mark framebuffer as Orphan Message-Id: <20070215152708.2e4f8c8b.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20070215132549.c182f7bf.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> References: <20070215132549.c182f7bf.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.7 (GTK+ 2.8.6; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 13:25:49 -0800 Randy Dunlap wrote: > From: Randy Dunlap > > 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 > --- > 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.