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 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.7 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIMWL_WL_HIGH, DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 725E8C433E1 for ; Thu, 27 Aug 2020 14:58:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A2DA2054F for ; Thu, 27 Aug 2020 14:58:38 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1598540318; bh=XA/2SOWzpOKYqsWNqmRW2VWhio0avdiOVEXAmnk7eqg=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:List-ID:From; b=b+NfBJgqTawcm2WoPEcKIJpAu3W28mFMhnrnLaAsK3bS4LSUZsIxzjNOjnsR2I5FB SP7ZUgQy8lEyRxlfeBazEJ6z9eRfOFQvgl/ldbBKJV0W1P7Gc+5Qlf9GbHGFTbLhCu VP1R7TB+RB78LrXcuPqZsUd21gH/ymD82RY0aC04= Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1727952AbgH0O5p (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Aug 2020 10:57:45 -0400 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:50130 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1729031AbgH0MZ2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Aug 2020 08:25:28 -0400 Received: from localhost (83-86-89-107.cable.dynamic.v4.ziggo.nl [83.86.89.107]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3E4AC22BF5; Thu, 27 Aug 2020 12:18:12 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1598530692; bh=XA/2SOWzpOKYqsWNqmRW2VWhio0avdiOVEXAmnk7eqg=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=FA+HQ5u4GLkBMRdJIGYiEu2Yim8rrhku7zK1NQmwnwHpntgDjqoY7/LxbsOPz5Gof ljext+7bAg34IrmpC4Njegr4VF6dB3oySSI2nj/7h9OOz3h2j3BUPseBb9RiUcfzrT 2ZxAkgC8+VZQ+TAEcnlkH/xeV8YtCsrs5hm15qt4= Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2020 14:18:26 +0200 From: Greg KH To: Lukas Bulwahn Cc: qla2xxx-upstream@qlogic.com, QLogic-Storage-Upstream@qlogic.com, GR-Linux-NIC-Dev@marvell.com, Nilesh Javali , Shahed Shaikh , Manish Chopra , linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner Subject: Re: SECOND REMINDER on Qlogic driver license conversion Message-ID: <20200827121826.GB420527@kroah.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-spdx-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 08:00:17AM +0200, Lukas Bulwahn wrote: > Dear Qlogic driver maintainers, dear Nilesh, deat Shahed, dear Manish, > > > during an unrelated kernel clean-up task, I noticed some LICENSE files for > the qlogic drivers hanging around in Documentation. > > Thomas Gleixner has provided you a patch series in June 2019 to pick up or > simply add a Reviewed-by tag here: > > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-spdx/20190606205526.447558989@linutronix.de > > As it seems from the public mailing list archive, you have never responded > to Thomas' request. If you could indicate that the change is fine for you, > I am happy to rebase the patch series to the current next tree, so that > Thomas can pick that up and let it travel through the spdx tree to Linus > for the next release. > > See first reminder here: > > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-spdx/alpine.DEB.2.21.2006300644130.4919@felia/ > > Just to let you know, I will send a third reminder in a few months, and > if there is no response to that, I will just send a patch to mark those > drivers where QLogic-Storage-Upstream@qlogic.com or > GR-Linux-NIC-Dev@marvell.com are maintainers as Orphaned, just to keep > MAINTAINERS reflect the actual state. This is why I hate having "group aliases" as maintainers. It doesn't work as we never know who "really" is maintaining the code, and there is no accountability. Given the length of a lack of response so far, I would suggest just marking it orphaned now. If someone wants to step up in the future to maintain it, great, but it needs to be a person, not an email alias. thanks, greg k-h