Re: [PATCH net 1/2] MAINTAINERS: Remove Karsten Keil

[Bagas Sanjaya]

On Thu, Dec 21, 2023 at 10:32:09AM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 21, 2023 at 04:14:18PM +0700, Bagas Sanjaya wrote:
> > He's no longer active maintaining ISDN/mISDN subsystem: his last message
> > on kernel mailing lists was three years ago [1] and last commit activity
> > from him was 1e1589ad8b5cb5 ("mISDN: Support DR6 indication in mISDNipac
> > driver") in 2016 when he gave Acked-by: from his @b1-systems.de address.
> > 
> > Move him to CREDITS, as netdev people should already handle ISDN/mISDN
> > patches.
> > 
> > Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/0ee243a9-9937-ad26-0684-44b18e772662@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ [1]
> > Cc: Karsten Keil <isdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Karsten Keil <keil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Are you sure he's not active?  It doesn't take much work to keep an old
> subsystem like this alive, last I remember, real changes were accepted
> just fine.

As for LKML messages, yes; he doesn't post any new messages since 2020.

> 
> Perhaps just don't send coding style cleanups to old subsystems?  :)
> 
> I would not take these unless Karsten agrees that he no longer wants to
> maintain this.

OK, I will send a private message to him asking for continuing maintainer
role. If there's no response from him by the new year, then it's safe to
route this through net tree instead (hence [PATCH net]).

Thanks.

-- 
An old man doll... just what I always wanted! - Clara

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