On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 09:28:16AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > On Wed, 2015-05-20 at 17:46 +0200, Richard Weinberger wrote: > > On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 5:27 PM, Sudip Mukherjee > > <sudipm.mukher...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Lets give the parport subsystem a proper name and start > > > maintaining the files. > > > > Excuse me, but usually someone takes over the maintainer role after > > proving that he > > cares for a sub system for a certain period of time. > > Or did I miss something? > > MAINTAINERS:85: Orphan: No current maintainer [but maybe you could > take the > MAINTAINERS-86- role as you write your new code]. > > Parport is an orphan, hasn't had a maintainer since at > least 2.6.12, and has almost no activity minus drive-by > cleanups and new device ID support every once in awhile. > > Sudip is writing new code. > > If Sudip wants to be a maintainer of parport, assuming > he has the time and resources to give it a go, I think > he should be welcomed to it. > > Thanks Sudip. Best of luck...
Thanks Joe & Alan for the support. I consider myself inexperienced to maintain a subsystem, but I hope you all will be there to review and help me in the process. regards sudip -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
