Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Set ARM/LPC18XX architecture orphan

From: Olof Johansson
Date: Tue Sep 25 2018 - 16:15:59 EST


On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 05:42:00PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 5:19 PM Vladimir Zapolskiy <vz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On 09/24/2018 04:19 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > > On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 6:43 AM Daniel Lezcano
> > > <daniel.lezcano@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> While sending patches around, Joachim Eastwood was Cc'ed but I got an error
> > >> its mailbox was full and the mail can not be delivered which makes me think
> > >> there is no body at the other end of the line.
> > >>
> > >> After doing some statistics, it appears the latest commit as author/commiter
> > >> is:
> > >>
> > >> commit b16ebc017ebf52a81e5e88743ccd68fc25e99ba9
> > >> Author: Joachim Eastwood <manabian@xxxxxxxxx>
> > >> Date: Mon Oct 31 14:45:17 2016 +0000
> > >>
> > >> Remove the maintainer entry and set the component as orphan.
> > >>
> > >> Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > >> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > I also checked the github account and any other mails I could
> > > find from Joachim, which stopped around the same time.
> > >
> > > I've added the lpc32xx maintainers to Cc, as the two platforms are
> > > related. Maybe they are interested in picking up support for this
> > > as well, and/or merge the two directories into one (there is only
> > > one trivial file in mach-lpc18xx, the rest are drivers).
> > >
> >
> > I'm interested in maintenance of lpc18xx/lpc43xx, I have one board
> > powered by LPC4357, so it would make the maintenance easier for me,
> > also multiple controllers are equal on lpc18xx/lpc43xx and lpc32xx,
> > and thus familiar to me.
> >
> > And I greatly appreciate Joachim's contribution, all platform drivers
> > written by Joachim are of perfect quality.
> >
> > I'll send a patch to MAINTAINERS later on.
>
> Awesome, thanks for stepping up!

Yeah, that's great! I'll hold off applying this if you think you'll send it in
the next couple of weeks.


Thanks,

-Olof