Re: [Kgdb-bugreport] [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: kgdb: Replace Jason with Daniel

[Randy Dunlap]

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.wessel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> ---
>>>>
>>>> Notes:
>>>> ÂÂÂÂ Over the years Jason has become increasingly hard to get hold off
>>>> ÂÂÂÂ and I think he must now be regarded as inactive.
>>>> ÂÂÂÂ Patches in kgdb-next (mine as it happens) have been there for over a
>>>> ÂÂÂÂ year without a corresponding pull request and a couple of architecture
>>>> ÂÂÂÂ specific kgdb fixes have ended up missing a release cycle (or two) as
>>>> ÂÂÂÂ the architecture maintainer waits for an Acked-by from Jason.
>>>> ÂÂÂÂ In the past I've had to rely on Andrew M. to land my own changes to
>>>> ÂÂÂÂ kgdb and in the v4.14 cycle you'll find my Acked-by on b8347c219649
>>>> ÂÂÂÂ ("x86/debug: Handle warnings before the notifier chain, to fix KGDB
>>>> ÂÂÂÂ crash"). That I was sharing surrogate acks convinced me we need a
>>>> ÂÂÂÂ change here and I've offered Jason help via private e-mail without
>>>> ÂÂÂÂ reply.
>>>> ÂÂÂÂ So, I really would prefer it it if this patch listed me as a
>>>> ÂÂÂÂ co-maintainer or, failing that, as least had Jason's blessing... but
>>>> ÂÂÂÂ it doesn't. I certainly suggest this patch takes a long time in
>>>> ÂÂÂÂ review, and if it doesn't attract Jason's attention then I can only
>>>> ÂÂÂÂ reiterate what is says in the commit log: Thanks Jason!
>>>>
>>>> Â MAINTAINERS | 3 +--
>>>> Â 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