From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"Mark M. Hoffman" <mhoffman@lightlink.com>,
Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>,
Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
Subject: Re: MAINTAINERS: Remove Mark M. Hoffman
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 16:46:01 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130212164601.c348b670.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130208105437.347ea5b4@endymion.delvare>
On Fri, 8 Feb 2013 10:54:37 +0100
Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> wrote:
> Mark M. Hoffman stopped working on the Linux kernel several years
> ago, so he should no longer be listed as a driver maintainer. I'm not
> even sure if his e-mail address still works.
>
> I can take over 3 drivers he was responsible for, the 4th one will
> fall down to the subsystem maintainer.
It's nice to give developers a mention in ./CREDITS if we're to expunge
them from ./MAINTAINERS. Something like this?
--- a/CREDITS~maintainers-remove-mark-m-hoffman-fix
+++ a/CREDITS
@@ -1510,6 +1510,11 @@ D: Natsemi ethernet
D: Cobalt Networks (x86) support
D: This-and-That
+N: Mark M. Hoffman
+E: mhoffman@lightlink.com
+D: Maintenance of drivers/hwmon/asb100.c, drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-sis96x.c
+D: i2c core contributions
+
N: Dirk Hohndel
E: hohndel@suse.de
D: The XFree86[tm] Project
_
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-02-13 0:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-02-08 9:54 MAINTAINERS: Remove Mark M. Hoffman Jean Delvare
2013-02-08 14:56 ` Guenter Roeck
2013-02-08 15:18 ` Jean Delvare
2013-02-13 0:46 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2013-02-13 10:39 ` Jean Delvare
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