linux-kernel - [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: floppy: take over maintainership

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Date:   Wed, 31 Jul 2019 17:47:40 +0300
From:   Denis Efremov <efremov@...ux.com>
To:     Jiri Kosina <jikos@...nel.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>, Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
        Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>,
        Alexander Popov <alex.popov@...ux.com>, efremov@...ras.ru,
        Denis Efremov <efremov@...ux.com>,
        Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>, linux-block@...r.kernel.org,
        "Linux-Kernel@...r. Kernel. Org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: floppy: take over maintainership

Hi All,

On 18.07.2019 01:03, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Jul 2019, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
>> I don't think we really have a floppy maintainer any more,
>
> Yeah, I basically volunteered myself to maintain it quite some time
> ago back when I fixed the concurrency issues which exhibited itself
> only with VM-emulated devices, and at the same time I still had the
> physical 3.5" reader.
>
> The hardware doesn't work any more though. So I guess I should just
> remove myself as a maintainer to reflect the reality and mark floppy.c
> as Orphaned.

Well, without jokes about Thunderdome, I've got time, hardware and
would like to maintain the floppy. Except the for recent fixes,
I described floppy ioctls in syzkaller. I've already spent quite
a lot of time with this code. Thus, if nobody minds

-- >8 --
From: Denis Efremov <efremov@...ux.com>
Subject: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: floppy: take over maintainership

I would like to maintain the floppy driver. After the recent fixes,
I think I know the code pretty well. Nowadays I've got 2 physical 3.5"
readers to test all the changes.

Signed-off-by: Denis Efremov <efremov@...ux.com>
---
 MAINTAINERS | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 6426db5198f0..6c49b48cfd69 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -6322,7 +6322,8 @@ F:	Documentation/devicetree/bindings/counter/ftm-quaddec.txt
 F:	drivers/counter/ftm-quaddec.c
 
 FLOPPY DRIVER
-S:	Orphan
+M:	Denis Efremov <efremov@...ux.com>
+S:	Odd Fixes
 L:	linux-block@...r.kernel.org
 F:	drivers/block/floppy.c
 
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