From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965369AbXCAQsB (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Mar 2007 11:48:01 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965370AbXCAQsB (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Mar 2007 11:48:01 -0500 Received: from rgminet01.oracle.com ([148.87.113.118]:61143 "EHLO rgminet01.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965369AbXCAQsA (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Mar 2007 11:48:00 -0500 Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2007 08:43:36 -0800 From: Randy Dunlap To: Jean Delvare Cc: David Brownell , Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel list , Andrea Arcangeli , philb@gnu.org, tim@cyberelk.net Subject: Re: [patch 2.6.21-rc2] parport is an orphan Message-Id: <20070301084336.de54e153.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> In-Reply-To: <20070301090249.87ebff38.khali@linux-fr.org> References: <200702281514.21402.david-b@pacbell.net> <20070301090249.87ebff38.khali@linux-fr.org> Organization: Oracle Linux Eng. X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.3.1 (GTK+ 2.8.10; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 1 Mar 2007 09:02:49 +0100 Jean Delvare wrote: > On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 15:14:20 -0800, David Brownell wrote: > > The writing on the wall seem to be that the parport stack is orphaned, > > rather than maintained by four folk ... and having a webpage that says > > the latest patches are based on a 2.5 kernel. > > I share David's impression here. Andrew, can you please pick this patch? Ditto. > > > > Signed-off-by: David Brownell > > Acked-by: Jean Delvare > > > > > Index: g26/MAINTAINERS > > =================================================================== > > --- g26.orig/MAINTAINERS 2007-02-28 12:46:00.000000000 -0800 > > +++ g26/MAINTAINERS 2007-02-28 12:47:58.000000000 -0800 > > @@ -2552,16 +2552,8 @@ L: i2c@lm-sensors.org > > S: Maintained > > > > PARALLEL PORT SUPPORT > > -P: Phil Blundell > > -M: philb@gnu.org > > -P: Tim Waugh > > -M: tim@cyberelk.net > > -P: David Campbell > > -P: Andrea Arcangeli > > -M: andrea@suse.de > > L: linux-parport@lists.infradead.org > > -W: http://people.redhat.com/twaugh/parport/ > > -S: Maintained > > +S: Orphan > > > > PARIDE DRIVERS FOR PARALLEL PORT IDE DEVICES > > P: Tim Waugh --- ~Randy *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code ***