From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
To: Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org>, Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>,
Eric Wheeler <bcache@lists.ewheeler.net>,
linux-bcache@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] MAINTAINERS: mark bcache as orphan
Date: Wed, 25 May 2016 11:35:28 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5745E260.5010703@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1605250705210.31937@cbobk.fhfr.pm>
On 05/24/2016 11:07 PM, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> On Tue, 24 May 2016, Joe Perches wrote:
>
>>> The submitted patches are not being reacted upon, and Jens is only picking
>>> up stable fixes on an rather ad-hoc basis.
>>>
>>> Link: lkml.kernel.org/r/574462C5.40307@kernel.dk
>>> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
>>> ---
>>> MAINTAINERS | 2 +-
>>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
>>> index 5f83015..c9906d6 100644
>>> --- a/MAINTAINERS
>>> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
>>> @@ -2288,7 +2288,7 @@ BCACHE (BLOCK LAYER CACHE)
>>> M: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
>>> L: linux-bcache@vger.kernel.org
>>> W: http://bcache.evilpiepirate.org
>>> -S: Maintained
>>> +S: Orphan
>>> F: drivers/md/bcache/
>>
>> Sections marked as Orphan generally
>> don't also have a named maintainer.
>>
>> Should Kent still be listed here?
>
> Thanks for the remark. I'd leave this up to Jens, as apparently at the end
> of the day he's the one relaying stability bugfixes upstream; so it might
> actually make sense to have him listed there eventually (while keeping the
> Orphan status).
Let's leave the entry. Kent is still around, it's just not actively
being maintained.
--
Jens Axboe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-05-25 17:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-05-24 14:38 [PATCH 1/4] bcache: bch_writeback_thread() is not freezable Jiri Kosina
2016-05-24 14:38 ` [PATCH 2/4] bcache: bch_allocator_thread() " Jiri Kosina
2016-05-24 14:38 ` [PATCH 3/4] bcache: bch_gc_thread() " Jiri Kosina
2016-05-24 14:38 ` [PATCH 4/4] MAINTAINERS: mark bcache as orphan Jiri Kosina
2016-05-24 14:43 ` Joe Perches
2016-05-25 5:07 ` Jiri Kosina
2016-05-25 17:35 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2016-05-24 15:01 ` [PATCH 1/4] bcache: bch_writeback_thread() is not freezable Jens Axboe
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