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Message-ID: <20160526022918.GA3419@dhcp-128-65.nay.redhat.com>
Date:	Thu, 26 May 2016 10:29:18 +0800
From:	Dave Young <dyoung@...hat.com>
To:	Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>
Cc:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	kexec@...ts.infradead.org, Haren Myneni <hbabu@...ibm.com>,
	Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Simon Horman <horms@...ge.net.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Kdump maintainers update

Hi, Vivek

On 05/25/16 at 09:37am, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 06:24:10AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Wed, 2016-05-25 at 09:16 -0400, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> > > I am proposing following updates to kdump maintainership. I have got
> > > busy in other things and not getting time to spend on kdump. 
> > > 
> > > Removed Haren Myneni as he has not participated in kdump development for
> > > a long time now.
> > > 
> > > Proposing adding the names of Dave and Baoquan as kdump maintainers as
> > > they have been contributing to kdump for a long time now and they are in
> > > a much better position to spend time on this than me.
> > []
> > > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> > []
> > > @@ -6189,8 +6189,9 @@ F:	Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt
> > >  F:	scripts/kconfig/
> > >  
> > >  KDUMP
> > > +M:	Dave Young <dyoung@...hat.com>
> > > +M:	Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com>
> > >  M:	Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>
> > 
> > You could mark yourself as an "R:" reviewer
> > instead of an "M:" maintainer.
> 
> That's a good idea. I updated the patch and marked myself reviewer.
> 
> Removed Haren Myneni as he has not participated in kdump development for
> a long time now.
> 
> Proposing adding the names of Dave and Baoquan as kdump maintainers as
> they have been working on it for quite some time on it upstream and
> they are in a much better position to spend time on this than me.

Thanks a lot for the patch! I will do my best to work with Baoquan to maintain
it. Very appreciated for your guidiance before and in the future.

> 
> Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>
> ---
>  MAINTAINERS | 5 +++--
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index 9c567a4..5792ec2 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -6189,8 +6189,9 @@ F:	Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt
>  F:	scripts/kconfig/
>  
>  KDUMP
> -M:	Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>
> -M:	Haren Myneni <hbabu@...ibm.com>
> +M:	Dave Young <dyoung@...hat.com>
> +M:	Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com>
> +R:	Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>
>  L:	kexec@...ts.infradead.org
>  W:	http://lse.sourceforge.net/kdump/

It is not related to this patch, just to be curious, who is maintain the
above page? Seems some links are outdated.

>  S:	Maintained
> -- 
> 2.7.4
> 

Thanks
Dave