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

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Message-ID: <431bd981-d81a-d4dd-75fe-96a29f8f1065@kernel.dk>
Date:   Wed, 31 Jul 2019 08:53:22 -0600
From:   Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
To:     efremov@...ux.com, 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,
        linux-block@...r.kernel.org,
        "Linux-Kernel@...r. Kernel. Org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: floppy: take over maintainership

On 7/31/19 8:47 AM, Denis Efremov wrote:
> 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

Great, can't see anyone objecting to doling out some floppy love.
Applied, thanks.

-- 
Jens Axboe