2013-09-27 03:59:32

by Jingoo Han

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Subject: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: remove Richard Purdie as backlight maintainer

Remove Richard Purdie as backlight subsystem maintainer, since he
is not responding for a few years.

Signed-off-by: Jingoo Han <[email protected]>
Cc: Richard Purdie <[email protected]>
---
MAINTAINERS | 1 -
1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 146ade4..398819c 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -1645,7 +1645,6 @@ S: Maintained
F: drivers/net/wireless/b43legacy/

BACKLIGHT CLASS/SUBSYSTEM
-M: Richard Purdie <[email protected]>
M: Jingoo Han <[email protected]>
S: Maintained
F: drivers/video/backlight/
--
1.7.10.4


2013-10-03 23:20:52

by Andrew Morton

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Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: remove Richard Purdie as backlight maintainer

On Fri, 27 Sep 2013 12:59:28 +0900 Jingoo Han <[email protected]> wrote:

> Remove Richard Purdie as backlight subsystem maintainer, since he
> is not responding for a few years.

It's nice to give a person a ./CREDITS entry when we remove them from
./MAINTAINERS.

2013-10-03 23:51:15

by Jingoo Han

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Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: remove Richard Purdie as backlight maintainer

On Friday, October 04, 2013 8:21 AM, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Sep 2013 12:59:28 +0900 Jingoo Han <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Remove Richard Purdie as backlight subsystem maintainer, since he
> > is not responding for a few years.
>
> It's nice to give a person a ./CREDITS entry when we remove them from
> ./MAINTAINERS.

However, Richard Purdie still remains as maintainers of other two entries
as below:
In this case, is it still necessary give him a ./CREDITS entry?

ARM/CORGI MACHINE SUPPORT
M: Richard Purdie <[email protected]>

LED SUBSYSTEM
M: Bryan Wu <[email protected]>
M: Richard Purdie <[email protected]>

Best regards,
Jingoo Han

2013-10-04 00:42:45

by Andrew Morton

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Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: remove Richard Purdie as backlight maintainer

On Fri, 04 Oct 2013 08:50:57 +0900 Jingoo Han <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Friday, October 04, 2013 8:21 AM, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Fri, 27 Sep 2013 12:59:28 +0900 Jingoo Han <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > Remove Richard Purdie as backlight subsystem maintainer, since he
> > > is not responding for a few years.
> >
> > It's nice to give a person a ./CREDITS entry when we remove them from
> > ./MAINTAINERS.
>
> However, Richard Purdie still remains as maintainers of other two entries
> as below:
> In this case, is it still necessary give him a ./CREDITS entry?

Necessary? No. Nice? Yes ;) I like to think that it reduces any of
the sting from being removed from MAINTAINERS. Plus it is more
accurate and costs nothing.

2013-10-04 10:11:14

by Richard Purdie

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Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: remove Richard Purdie as backlight maintainer

On Thu, 2013-10-03 at 17:43 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Fri, 04 Oct 2013 08:50:57 +0900 Jingoo Han <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > On Friday, October 04, 2013 8:21 AM, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > On Fri, 27 Sep 2013 12:59:28 +0900 Jingoo Han <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Remove Richard Purdie as backlight subsystem maintainer, since he
> > > > is not responding for a few years.
> > >
> > > It's nice to give a person a ./CREDITS entry when we remove them from
> > > ./MAINTAINERS.
> >
> > However, Richard Purdie still remains as maintainers of other two entries
> > as below:
> > In this case, is it still necessary give him a ./CREDITS entry?
>
> Necessary? No. Nice? Yes ;) I like to think that it reduces any of
> the sting from being removed from MAINTAINERS. Plus it is more
> accurate and costs nothing.

It is sad to be removed from there but equally, I haven't had the time
to spend on it for a while and it is justified. I am still around, I
have been reading some of the patches, there are just other things which
are more in need of my time (the Yocto Project primarily). I'd done what
I'd set out to do with the backlight/leds subsystems and its time to let
others take them forward. So a credits entry sounds nice and probably
more appropriate now, thanks :)

Cheers,

Richard