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Date:	Mon, 28 Mar 2011 14:44:38 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>
To:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
Cc:	Linus <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, x86@...nel.org,
	Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>,
	linux-pm@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
	Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@....eng.br>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	Ondrej Zary <linux@...nbow-software.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] apm: orphan the driver

On Sat, 26 Mar 2011, Stephen Rothwell wrote:

> Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
> ---
>  MAINTAINERS |    4 +---
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> I no longer have access to any hardware that uses APM and have not
> provided real maintenance for several years.  Hopefully someone with the
> hardware or energy will step forward if the driver is to be kept.
> 
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index 749f9cd..61f9948 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -548,10 +548,8 @@ S:	Maintained
>  F:	sound/aoa/
>  
>  APM DRIVER
> -M:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
>  L:	linux-laptop@...r.kernel.org
> -W:	http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/
> -S:	Supported
> +S:	Orphan
>  F:	arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c
>  F:	include/linux/apm_bios.h

I still have some hardware that uses APM and put a new 2.6 on it time to 
time, so I can take this driver over if you want to. According to git log 
it's really low effort anyway :)

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs, Novell Inc.

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