linux-kernel - Re: New MMC maintainer needed

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Message-ID: <812689.20578.qm@web37604.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
Date:	Tue, 14 Jul 2009 21:59:04 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Alex Dubov <oakad@...oo.com>
To:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-embedded@...r.kernel.org, Nicolas Pitre <nico@....org>,
	Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@....atmel.com>,
	Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@...el.com>,
	Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com>,
	David Brownell <david-b@...bell.net>, manuel.lauss@...il.com,
	mirq-linux@...e.qmqm.pl, Pavel Pisa <ppisa@...ron.com>,
	Jarkko Lavinen <jarkko.lavinen@...ia.com>,
	Ben Dooks <ben@...ff.org>, saschasommer@...enet.de,
	avorontsov@...mvista.com, ian@...menth.co.uk,
	HaraldWelte@...tech.com, JosephChan@....com.tw,
	Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@...ia.com>,
	Pierre Ossman <pierre@...man.eu>
Subject: Re: New MMC maintainer needed


> I'm afraid the time has come for me
> to step down as maintainer for the
> MMC/SD/SDIO subsystem and for someone else to take over the
> rudder. It
> is no secret that I haven't been able to give the
> maintainer role the
> resources it required, and as a result it has gone from
> being a fun
> hobby to a burdensome chore. I was hoping it was a
> temporary slump, but
> this has been the norm for over a year now, so it's time
> for me to
> throw in the towel.

What an unfortunate thing.

Franky speaking, I couldn't manage any time to work on Linux
in the last year myself. I had such a great plans for Memstick
and such, yet none advanced.

At this rate, the future of the flash cards on Linux will
become highly uncertain.
:-(



      
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