linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: add myself as maintainer of fbdev

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Date:   Wed, 21 Dec 2016 21:38:14 +0000
From:   Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com>
To:     Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@...sung.com>
Cc:     akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
        Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@...com>,
        Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: add myself as maintainer of fbdev

On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 05:50:05PM +0100, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On Wednesday, December 21, 2016 03:06:55 PM Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 03:45:47PM +0100, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> > > I would like to help with fbdev maintenance.  I can dedicate some time
> > > for reviewing and handling patches but won't have time for much more.
> > > 
> > 
> > I thought usually someone takes over the maintainer role after
> > proving that he cares for a subsystem for a certain period of time.
> > 
> > I know Bartlomiej is here for a long time, but fbdev??
> 
> I'm not a fbdev expert and I'm not pretending to be one.
> 
> I decided to officially handle patches for fbdev after this
> subsystem has been marked as Orphan in upstream tree (nobody
> has volunteered to take over from Tomi after he sent his
> resignation patch to a list a week earlier).

ohhh.. right... i am seeing that thread now. Sorry for the noise.
I have two months of lkml and fbdev mails pending, will read them in
next two weeks of holidays. Only managed to see few mails that had me
in to or cc.

> 
> I won't have a lot of time even for this activity so help is
> very much welcomed.

time is the only thing which is very scarce nowadays. but please
do ping me if you need any help.

regards
sudip