linux-kernel - Re: LED Maintainership

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Message-ID: <20220714222541.232eadfb@thinkpad>
Date:   Thu, 14 Jul 2022 22:25:41 +0200
From:   Marek Behún <kabel@...nel.org>
To:     Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org>
Cc:     Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>, linux-leds@...r.kernel.org,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: LED Maintainership

On Thu, 14 Jul 2022 13:14:19 +0100
Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org> wrote:

> On Thu, 14 Jul 2022, Pavel Machek wrote:
> 
> > Hi!
> >   
> > > Not sure what's going on behind the scenes, but it looks as though the
> > > LED subsystem has been left unmaintained for at least 2 months now.  
> >   
> > > Does anyone have any objection to me stepping in as temporary
> > > maintainer until the situation is resolved?  
> > 
> > Yes, I'm a bit busy and would not mind help.
> > 
> > There's a lot of easy stuff in the LED -- drivers not introducing new
> > APIs -- and some quite tricky stuff -- userland API leaves... a lot to
> > be desired, and we are in the middle of defining multicolor API.
> > 
> > I wanted to ask Marek (in cc now) if he would be interested in
> > helping. He knows the APIs / issues, and actually has multicolor LEDs
> > he cares about. Marek, are you interested?
> > 
> > If Marek is not interested, yes, help with the driver stuff would be
> > welcome.  
> 
> No problem.  The offer still stands.
> 
> I guess Marek and I aren't mutually exclusive either.
> 
> Any harm in us both helping out (if Marek is also interested that is)?

Hello Lee, Pavel,

I am interested, but unfortunately I won't have much time for reviewing
patches until september.

From september, I would be open to co-maintaining.

Marek