On 12/05/2017 06:55 AM, Daniel Thompson wrote:
> On 05/12/17 14:37, Jason Wessel wrote:
>> On 12/05/2017 08:09 AM, Lee Jones wrote:
>>> On Tue, 05 Dec 2017, Daniel Thompson wrote:
>>>
>>>> ... with many, many thanks for Jason for all his hard work.
>>>>
>>>> Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wes...@windriver.com>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thomp...@linaro.org>
>>>> ---
>>>>
>>>> Notes:
>>>> Over the years Jason has become increasingly hard to get hold off
>>>> and I think he must now be regarded as inactive.
>>>> Patches in kgdb-next (mine as it happens) have been there for over a
>>>> year without a corresponding pull request and a couple of architecture
>>>> specific kgdb fixes have ended up missing a release cycle (or two) as
>>>> the architecture maintainer waits for an Acked-by from Jason.
>>>> In the past I've had to rely on Andrew M. to land my own changes to
>>>> kgdb and in the v4.14 cycle you'll find my Acked-by on b8347c219649
>>>> ("x86/debug: Handle warnings before the notifier chain, to fix KGDB
>>>> crash"). That I was sharing surrogate acks convinced me we need a
>>>> change here and I've offered Jason help via private e-mail without
>>>> reply.
>>>> So, I really would prefer it it if this patch listed me as a
>>>> co-maintainer or, failing that, as least had Jason's blessing... but
>>>> it doesn't. I certainly suggest this patch takes a long time in
>>>> review, and if it doesn't attract Jason's attention then I can only
>>>> reiterate what is says in the commit log: Thanks Jason!
>>>>
>>>> MAINTAINERS | 3 +--
>>>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> It looks like Jason has been inactive in all aspects of upstream
>>> maintainership and as a contributor for well over a year now.
>>
>> I have not been working directly on upstream kernel contributions for quite
>> some time. It doesn't mean I haven't been involved with kernel development.
>> Patches that I have reviewed or suggested to other developers generally
>> don't bare my name. I wouldn't mind trying to take a slightly more gradual
>> passing of the baton and add Daniel as co-maintainer for a while before I
>> retire from kernel work and merge myself away in the coming years. :-)
>
> Great to hear from you again! I shall consider this patch nacked or the time
> being ;-)... and if you are happy with help from me I shall leave it to you
> to propose an update to MAINTAINERS.
>
>
>> I have a series of 50+ patches for kgdb/kdb/usb which have never been
>> published. I am not saying that we actually need any of those patches, but
>> it would be nice to let the community decide, and we can see if there is
>> anything worth merging into the next cycle or future work with other
>> maintainers. My kernel.org tree stopped working a long time ago, probably
>> from inactivity. I'll see if that can get restored in the next few days, or
>> I'll use my github tree and send the unpublished work to the mailing list as
>> an RFC.
>
> I, for one, would be interested to see these.
Me also. I have 3 kdb patches that I just made.
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~Randy
