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[69.109.179.158]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id i13-20020a056902068d00b00b7767ca749fsm2956110ybt.60.2023.04.10.07.51.43 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Mon, 10 Apr 2023 07:51:43 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2023 10:51:42 -0400 From: William Breathitt Gray To: Guenter Roeck Cc: Wim Van Sebroeck , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-watchdog@vger.kernel.org, Paul Demetrotion , techsupport@winsystems.com, Andy Shevchenko , Fred Eckert Subject: Re: [PATCH] watchdog: ebc-c384_wdt: Remove support Message-ID: References: <20230410143101.182563-1-william.gray@linaro.org> <7b0fbd06-73d0-7fa9-3f03-e788f1df4631@roeck-us.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="kXGntYyXbZjGn7a2" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7b0fbd06-73d0-7fa9-3f03-e788f1df4631@roeck-us.net> Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --kXGntYyXbZjGn7a2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Apr 10, 2023 at 07:43:37AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote: > On 4/10/23 07:31, William Breathitt Gray wrote: > > The current maintainer no longer has access to the device for testing, > > the original user of this driver indicates that they have moved on to > > another device, and the manufacturer WINSYSTEMS does not appear > > interested in taking over support for this code. > >=20 > > Signed-off-by: William Breathitt Gray >=20 > A bit harsh, maybe. Just mark it as orphan for the time being. >=20 > I see there are other Winsystems drivers. What are you going to do > with those ? >=20 > Guenter Oops, I didn't mean for that commit message to sound so harsh but merely log some brief reasons for the support removal for posterity. However, I adjust this to orphan status rather than dropping; what is the process to mark a driver as orphaned? As for the other Winsystems drivers, I'm still able to test those so I can continue maintainance of those -- although I'm always open if WINSYSTEMS would like to join as a supporter, or a user co-maintainer comes along. ;-) William Breathitt Gray --kXGntYyXbZjGn7a2 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHUEARYKAB0WIQSNN83d4NIlKPjon7a1SFbKvhIjKwUCZDQifgAKCRC1SFbKvhIj K4PZAP9vBvzOzd8mRW35dKX/XGo7maxqBvWwRcgTzfvwb7iMygD9HKov1wQXvkqZ MZsaSR0i1y6OmR4CUb2u/g3GRE0L/QI= =Uzif -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --kXGntYyXbZjGn7a2--