From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1423178AbXBUViJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Feb 2007 16:38:09 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1423174AbXBUViI (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Feb 2007 16:38:08 -0500 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:35825 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1423141AbXBUViF (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Feb 2007 16:38:05 -0500 Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 21:37:50 +0000 (GMT) From: James Simmons To: Adrian Bunk cc: Randy Dunlap , lkml , akpm , linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: mark framebuffer as Orphan In-Reply-To: <20070216122403.GM13958@stusta.de> Message-ID: References: <20070215132549.c182f7bf.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> <20070215150526.1fd63b3e.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> <20070216122403.GM13958@stusta.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > > > Alot of patches have been flowing into the layer. > > > > So would you like to leave it as Maintained or change it to > > "Odd Fixes"? (Maintained => a maintainer) From the MAINTAINTERS file: > > > > Supported: Someone is actually paid to look after this. > > Maintained: Someone actually looks after it. > > Odd Fixes: It has a maintainer but they don't have time to do > > much other than throw the odd patch in. See below.. > > Orphan: No current maintainer [but maybe you could take the > > role as you write your new code]. > > Obsolete: Old code. Something tagged obsolete generally means > > it has been replaced by a better system and you > > should be using that. > >... > > If you start doing this, there are a lot more entries that need to be > changed... > > Which of Supported/Maintained/"Odd Fixes" is written doesn't matter in > practice. > > What matters is that James' email address gets into the entry so that > patches and bug reports reach him. > > James' work is definitely no below the average of entries marked as > Maintained. At this point I would say maintained. Plus Tony is coming back :-) Its just recently I have been working on various other things like the display class.