linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: move Milo Kim to credits

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Message-ID: <346f2ecd-a015-7f26-b68d-10cf6b5343b6@ti.com>
Date:   Tue, 22 Sep 2020 06:36:47 -0500
From:   Dan Murphy <dmurphy@...com>
To:     Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>,
        Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@...nel.org>
CC:     Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>, Jonathan Cameron <jic23@...nel.org>,
        Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org>,
        Sebastian Reichel <sre@...nel.org>,
        Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@...sung.com>,
        <linux-iio@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        <linux-leds@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-pm@...r.kernel.org>,
        <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>, <linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        <linux-pwm@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: move Milo Kim to credits

All

On 9/22/20 4:36 AM, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 09:08:37AM +0200, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
>> On Mon, 21 Sep 2020 at 23:06, Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz> wrote:
>>> I believe normal way would be to mark the entries "orphaned", not to
>>> drop them altogether. Plus, I believe someone from TI is likely to
>>> step up.
>> These are entries for specific drivers so they are covered by the
>> subsystem maintainers. You believe someone will step up, I believe if
>> these were important for TI, they would find the person some time ago,
>> so the emails won't bounce... This was similar with BQ chargers where
> It's fairly common for mobile parts to get dropped relatively quickly as
> the technology moves fairly quickly in that market, I think a lot of teh
> parts that Milo was working on were mobile ones.

These specific drivers don't see many patches applied to them. These 
drivers did have a few patches this year to fix random bugs.

Since I have worked in these other subsystems if replacing the 
Maintainer is desired over removal then my name and email can be added 
like I did with Andrews.

Dan Murphy <dmurphy@...com>

Dan