From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82CA2C433F5 for ; Tue, 19 Oct 2021 09:56:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6460661212 for ; Tue, 19 Oct 2021 09:56:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S234840AbhJSJ6w convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Oct 2021 05:58:52 -0400 Received: from mail-vk1-f169.google.com ([209.85.221.169]:33720 "EHLO mail-vk1-f169.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S231652AbhJSJ6w (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Oct 2021 05:58:52 -0400 Received: by mail-vk1-f169.google.com with SMTP id r26so656416vkq.0; Tue, 19 Oct 2021 02:56:39 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20210112; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc:content-transfer-encoding; bh=Wa3+/NxbJXKxsVHmrMUZvmSmQSRoGR1Z/ThSOCypBgU=; b=RLiuBPgyDuMALuG+PDoK+Ix7F0gDK9B0QI+rfwFL+0gA8Gibk1OretBZt/ejSX30Uc y8ReFiGv2p8N3SShcWZGmGUqDLQEvMHJsC/aQ1P2lyMOH6cCM3+WW5Od+r/jNUuQJThH YvNgQCL5FJmbIzPXuWw0hH8xXh8MBQyMmylTcQ9VeyO+f5nT8Vj8nNMiGdGxZWVdkoam Gzz/xR5pQWg0xecxOFaJxgLs9Iy4WAB2hA1AB/rg5EgrA1z4Q4xzOOg3UIMwUXBn11W+ AutH3+Q4CbC1nXJJ9zZzMJDXCFAGUEAOn+EcTG0nYg8a2Ni/ZDts4+qLYTvXPB2XWU5t CY7w== X-Gm-Message-State: AOAM532gqlKOYIKq6Jb1rpc2najyFP6rw75RpVEO3XR16L9AzN6/k/jV ud06l5GsMVNHGbfJ6nIkhq1bfwnh6A0BqA== X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABdhPJzo4xjW1UUlCXp9Z2apl1bmANu5bFYEOnoA/kQsv80ihNO15arTt5W1FGrYR9o/ka+IpNH0/w== X-Received: by 2002:a1f:f241:: with SMTP id q62mr11152778vkh.12.1634637398714; Tue, 19 Oct 2021 02:56:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail-ua1-f49.google.com (mail-ua1-f49.google.com. [209.85.222.49]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 33sm3452622vkn.2.2021.10.19.02.56.37 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Tue, 19 Oct 2021 02:56:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail-ua1-f49.google.com with SMTP id u5so12529217uao.13; Tue, 19 Oct 2021 02:56:37 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 2002:a05:6102:290c:: with SMTP id cz12mr33705536vsb.35.1634637397645; Tue, 19 Oct 2021 02:56:37 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20210920080635.253826-1-u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> <57122a67509bebdf0d1b9f5bc15db116e0124e5d.camel@infradead.org> In-Reply-To: From: Geert Uytterhoeven Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2021 11:56:26 +0200 X-Gmail-Original-Message-ID: Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Remove Matt Mackall as his identity is obsolete To: Laurent Pinchart Cc: David Woodhouse , Tim Bird , =?UTF-8?Q?Uwe_Kleine=2DK=C3=B6nig?= , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Paul Gortmaker , Linux Embedded , Herbert Xu , Linux Crypto Mailing List , Sascha Hauer , Matt Porter , Kevin Hilman , Thomas Gleixner , Thomas Petazzoni , Tim Bird Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Oct 19, 2021 at 11:48 AM Laurent Pinchart wrote: > On Tue, Oct 19, 2021 at 10:33:10AM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: > > On Tue, 2021-10-19 at 09:55 +0300, Laurent Pinchart wrote: > > > On Mon, Oct 18, 2021 at 03:17:22PM -0600, Tim Bird wrote: > > > > I think an overhaul of the "EMBEDDED LINUX" MAINTAINERS entry > > > > is long-overdue. > > > > > > > > No offense to any of the 3 persons listed, but I think the kernel developer > > > > community would be better served by a group of individuals with a more > > > > current active role in embedded linux. I have a few names I'll > > > > toss out for > > > > candidates: Matt Porter, Kevin Hilman, Thomas Gleixner, Thomas > > > > Petazonni, Laurent Pinchart, and Uwe Kleine-König (and maybe even > > > > myself). > > > > > > > > This entry in the MAINTAINERS file is somewhat special, in that it > > > > covers a "field of endeavor" rather than a specific set of files or > > > > directories. > > > > > > > > Thoughts? > > > > > > Thank you for volunteering me :-) > > > > > > I was indeed wondering about this particular MAINTAINERS entry. As it > > > doesn't cover any particular set of files, directories, drivers, > > > subsystems or architectures, what does being listed here endeavour ? > > > > Basically nothing; I was going to suggest removing it entirely. There's > > certainly no point listing me there any more. > > > > Once upon a time it involved a certain amount of heckling about memory > > usage and "your hash table doesn't need to be that large" but that ship > > sailed a long time ago :) > > Heckling is still an option without a MAINTAINERS entry I suppose :-) Don't worry, I keep on sailing ;-) > I wouldn't object if we were to remove it. +1 Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Geert Uytterhoeven Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Remove Matt Mackall as his identity is obsolete Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2021 11:56:26 +0200 Message-ID: References: <20210920080635.253826-1-u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> <57122a67509bebdf0d1b9f5bc15db116e0124e5d.camel@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" To: Laurent Pinchart Cc: David Woodhouse , Tim Bird , =?UTF-8?Q?Uwe_Kleine=2DK=C3=B6nig?= , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Paul Gortmaker , Linux Embedded , Herbert Xu , Linux Crypto Mailing List , Sascha Hauer , Matt Porter , Kevin Hilman , Thomas Gleixner , Thomas Petazzoni , Tim Bird On Tue, Oct 19, 2021 at 11:48 AM Laurent Pinchart wrote: > On Tue, Oct 19, 2021 at 10:33:10AM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: > > On Tue, 2021-10-19 at 09:55 +0300, Laurent Pinchart wrote: > > > On Mon, Oct 18, 2021 at 03:17:22PM -0600, Tim Bird wrote: > > > > I think an overhaul of the "EMBEDDED LINUX" MAINTAINERS entry > > > > is long-overdue. > > > > > > > > No offense to any of the 3 persons listed, but I think the kernel d= eveloper > > > > community would be better served by a group of individuals with a m= ore > > > > current active role in embedded linux. I have a few names I'll > > > > toss out for > > > > candidates: Matt Porter, Kevin Hilman, Thomas Gleixner, Thomas > > > > Petazonni, Laurent Pinchart, and Uwe Kleine-K=C3=B6nig (and maybe e= ven > > > > myself). > > > > > > > > This entry in the MAINTAINERS file is somewhat special, in that it > > > > covers a "field of endeavor" rather than a specific set of files or > > > > directories. > > > > > > > > Thoughts? > > > > > > Thank you for volunteering me :-) > > > > > > I was indeed wondering about this particular MAINTAINERS entry. As it > > > doesn't cover any particular set of files, directories, drivers, > > > subsystems or architectures, what does being listed here endeavour ? > > > > Basically nothing; I was going to suggest removing it entirely. There's > > certainly no point listing me there any more. > > > > Once upon a time it involved a certain amount of heckling about memory > > usage and "your hash table doesn't need to be that large" but that ship > > sailed a long time ago :) > > Heckling is still an option without a MAINTAINERS entry I suppose :-) Don't worry, I keep on sailing ;-) > I wouldn't object if we were to remove it. +1 Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert