Re: [i2c] Wanted: i2c subsystem co-maintainer

From: Jean Delvare
Date: Tue Mar 25 2008 - 05:11:50 EST


On Tue, 4 Mar 2008 18:45:12 +0100, Jean Delvare wrote:
> I have a hard time maintaining the i2c subsystem alone. New drivers
> and, more importantly, subsystem evolutions are submitted much faster
> than I can review and merge them. I am hearing complaints about this.
> It has been lasting for a while now and it doesn't seem like the
> situation is going to improve. Thus, I think it would be better if
> someone was co-maintaining the i2c subsystem with me.
>
> So, if anyone is interested in co-maintaining the i2c subsystem with
> me, please let me know. The ideal candidate would come from the
> embedded world, as I have absolutely no experience with this myself and
> most of the new drivers are for embedded devices, and should have
> contributed to the kernel in a significant way already.

Ben Dooks agreed to become my co-maintainer for the i2c subsystem. In
particular, Ben will help with drivers for embedded systems, of which
my experience is inexistent. Thanks Ben and welcome on board!

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Ben, please give by your ack on this patch, then I will push it
upstream.

MAINTAINERS | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

--- linux-2.6.25-rc6.orig/MAINTAINERS 2008-03-21 10:58:23.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.25-rc6/MAINTAINERS 2008-03-23 15:16:11.000000000 +0100
@@ -1883,6 +1883,8 @@ S: Maintained
I2C SUBSYSTEM
P: Jean Delvare
M: khali@xxxxxxxxxxxx
+P: Ben Dooks
+M: ben-linux@xxxxxxxxx
L: i2c@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
T: quilt http://khali.linux-fr.org/devel/linux-2.6/jdelvare-i2c/
S: Maintained

--
Jean Delvare
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