linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/5] wireless: ti: Convert specialized logging macros to kernel style

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Message-ID: <1459411668.1744.6.camel@perches.com>
Date:	Thu, 31 Mar 2016 01:07:48 -0700
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, Eliad Peller <eliad@...ery.com>,
	Guy Mishol <guym@...com>,
	Uri Mashiach <uri.mashiach@...pulab.co.il>,
	Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] wireless: ti: Convert specialized logging macros to
 kernel style

On Thu, 2016-03-31 at 10:39 +0300, Kalle Valo wrote:
> Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com> writes:
> > On Wed, 2016-03-30 at 14:51 +0300, Kalle Valo wrote:
> > > Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com> writes:
> > > > 
> > > > Using the normal kernel logging mechanisms makes this code
> > > > a bit more like other wireless drivers.
> > > Personally I don't see the point but I don't have any strong opinions. A
> > > bigger problem is that TI drivers are not really in active development
> > > and that's I'm not thrilled to take big patches like this for dormant
> > > drivers.
> > Not very dormant.
> > 
> > 35 patches in the last year, most of them adding functionality.
> Oh, I didn't realise it had that many patches. But the driver is
> orphaned and doesn't have a maintainer so could I then have an ack from
> one of the active contributors that this ok?

Fine by me.

$ ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f --git drivers/net/wireless/ti/

Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org> (maintainer:NETWORKING DRIVERS (WIRELESS),commit_signer:27/35=77%)
Eliad Peller <eliad@...ery.com> (commit_signer:9/35=26%,authored:7/35=20%)
Guy Mishol <guym@...com> (commit_signer:6/35=17%,authored:5/35=14%)
Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@...el.com> (commit_signer:6/35=17%,authored:3/35=9%)
Uri Mashiach <uri.mashiach@...pulab.co.il> (commit_signer:4/35=11%,authored:4/35=11%)

For those people now added to the cc list,
here's the original patch thread:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/3/7/1099