linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 6/6] MAINTAINERS: maintain parport

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Date:	Wed, 20 May 2015 23:01:37 +0530
From:	Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com>
To:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Cc:	Richard Weinberger <richard.weinberger@...il.com>,
	Tim Waugh <tim@...erelk.net>, Jean Delvare <jdelvare@...e.de>,
	Wolfram Sang <wsa@...-dreams.de>,
	Willy Tarreau <willy@...a-x.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Alan Cox <gnomes@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-i2c@...r.kernel.org,
	"devel@...verdev.osuosl.org" <devel@...verdev.osuosl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] MAINTAINERS: maintain parport

On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 09:28:16AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Wed, 2015-05-20 at 17:46 +0200, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> > On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 5:27 PM, Sudip Mukherjee
> > <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com> 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?
> 
> MAINTAINERS:85:    Orphan:      No current maintainer [but maybe you could take the
> MAINTAINERS-86-                 role as you write your new code].
> 
> Parport is an orphan, hasn't had a maintainer since at
> least 2.6.12, and has almost no activity minus drive-by
> cleanups and new device ID support every once in awhile.
> 
> Sudip is writing new code.
> 
> If Sudip wants to be a maintainer of parport, assuming
> he has the time and resources to give it a go, I think
> he should be welcomed to it.
> 
> Thanks Sudip.  Best of luck...

Thanks Joe & Alan for the support. I consider myself inexperienced
to maintain a subsystem, but I hope you all will be there to review
and help me in the process.

regards
sudip
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