From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
To: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Cc: "David Woodhouse" <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
"Tim Bird" <tbird20d@gmail.com>,
"Uwe Kleine-König" <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>,
"Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"Paul Gortmaker" <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>,
"Linux Embedded" <linux-embedded@vger.kernel.org>,
"Herbert Xu" <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
"Linux Crypto Mailing List" <linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org>,
"Sascha Hauer" <kernel@pengutronix.de>,
"Matt Porter" <mporter@konsulko.com>,
"Kevin Hilman" <khilman@baylibre.com>,
"Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@linutronix.de>,
"Thomas Petazzoni" <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>,
"Tim Bird" <tim.bird@sony.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Remove Matt Mackall as his identity is obsolete
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2021 11:56:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMuHMdVCrC5_AjNDJN+nwrnn=EVTfD-8ddG=FaFBBh_0UY5acQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YW6UGP10hfGJ2kYy@pendragon.ideasonboard.com>
On Tue, Oct 19, 2021 at 11:48 AM Laurent Pinchart
<laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com> 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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-10-19 9:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-20 8:06 [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Remove Matt Mackall as his identity is obsolete Uwe Kleine-König
2021-09-20 13:01 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2021-09-23 18:51 ` Uwe Kleine-König
[not found] ` <CA+bK7J741D=DgZMNeEC5xg9kDDSaJu19QsRunVvXkBGx1mKGnQ@mail.gmail.com>
2021-10-19 6:55 ` Laurent Pinchart
2021-10-19 9:33 ` David Woodhouse
2021-10-19 9:47 ` Laurent Pinchart
2021-10-19 9:56 ` Geert Uytterhoeven [this message]
2021-10-19 22:24 ` Kevin Hilman
2021-10-19 22:54 ` Tim.Bird
2021-10-24 7:24 ` Rob Landley
2021-10-24 9:57 ` Greg KH
2022-07-08 3:54 ` Florian Fainelli
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