The blackfin architecture has seen no maintainer action of any kind since
April 2015. No new code, no pull requests, no acks to patches, no response
to mails, nothing.
The web site has an expired certificate (expiration Sep 2017, issued in
2013), the mailing list sees no answers either, with one exception:
https://sourceforge.net/p/adi-buildroot/mailman/adi-buildroot-devel/
> Hi all,
>
> Steven is no longer working on this for ADI. Acked by me if this works. Thanks.
>
> Best regards,
> Aaron Wu
> Analog Devices Inc.
But, Aaron doesn't seem to respond to queries either.
Signed-off-by: Adam Borowski <[email protected]>
---
Obviously, plankton like me with no relation to the architecture in question
shouldn't be orphaning it, but consider this mail telling Linus that in the
state of Denmark there is an odor of decay.
I also did not pester Scott Jiang (BLACKFIN MEDIA DRIVER) before (just
Steven Miao and Aaron Wu), but with the last ack on 2015-04-09, maintenance
of that part looks like it's on the same boat.
God Jul!
MAINTAINERS | 16 +++++++---------
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index a6e86e20761e..2d0773007c89 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -2621,24 +2621,22 @@ F: fs/bfs/
F: include/uapi/linux/bfs_fs.h
BLACKFIN ARCHITECTURE
-M: Steven Miao <[email protected]>
L: [email protected] (moderated for non-subscribers)
T: git git://git.code.sf.net/p/adi-linux/code
W: http://blackfin.uclinux.org
-S: Supported
+S: Orphan
F: arch/blackfin/
BLACKFIN EMAC DRIVER
L: [email protected] (moderated for non-subscribers)
W: http://blackfin.uclinux.org
-S: Supported
+S: Orphan
F: drivers/net/ethernet/adi/
BLACKFIN MEDIA DRIVER
-M: Scott Jiang <[email protected]>
L: [email protected] (moderated for non-subscribers)
W: http://blackfin.uclinux.org/
-S: Supported
+S: Orphan
F: drivers/media/platform/blackfin/
F: drivers/media/i2c/adv7183*
F: drivers/media/i2c/vs6624*
@@ -2646,25 +2644,25 @@ F: drivers/media/i2c/vs6624*
BLACKFIN RTC DRIVER
L: [email protected] (moderated for non-subscribers)
W: http://blackfin.uclinux.org
-S: Supported
+S: Orphan
F: drivers/rtc/rtc-bfin.c
BLACKFIN SDH DRIVER
L: [email protected] (moderated for non-subscribers)
W: http://blackfin.uclinux.org
-S: Supported
+S: Orphan
F: drivers/mmc/host/bfin_sdh.c
BLACKFIN SERIAL DRIVER
L: [email protected] (moderated for non-subscribers)
W: http://blackfin.uclinux.org
-S: Supported
+S: Orphan
F: drivers/tty/serial/bfin_uart.c
BLACKFIN WATCHDOG DRIVER
L: [email protected] (moderated for non-subscribers)
W: http://blackfin.uclinux.org
-S: Supported
+S: Orphan
F: drivers/watchdog/bfin_wdt.c
BLINKM RGB LED DRIVER
--
2.15.1
Looping in Arnd as arch maintainer.
On Mon, Dec 25, 2017 at 4:38 PM, Adam Borowski <[email protected]> wrote:
> The blackfin architecture has seen no maintainer action of any kind since
> April 2015. No new code, no pull requests, no acks to patches, no response
> to mails, nothing.
>
> The web site has an expired certificate (expiration Sep 2017, issued in
> 2013), the mailing list sees no answers either, with one exception:
>
> https://sourceforge.net/p/adi-buildroot/mailman/adi-buildroot-devel/
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Steven is no longer working on this for ADI. Acked by me if this works. Thanks.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Aaron Wu
>> Analog Devices Inc.
>
> But, Aaron doesn't seem to respond to queries either.
>
> Signed-off-by: Adam Borowski <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Linus Walleij <[email protected]>
Yours,
Linus Walleij
My apologize for this ...
At this point ADI are not able to commit to maintaining the Blackfin port in the Linux Kernel. As such we propose that we remove the port from the active mainline so that it does not interfere with other kernel development. Moving forward we are still in effort to get closely involved with the community and in trying to support Linux for newer multi-core processors.
I want to show my thanks sincerely to the community for supporting on us, and appreciation your understanding on this.
Best regards,
Aaron Wu
Analog Devices
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Linus Walleij [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: 2017年12月28日 20:40
> To: Adam Borowski <[email protected]>; Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>
> Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>; linux-
> [email protected]; Steven Miao <[email protected]>; Wu, Aaron
> <[email protected]>; Scott Jiang <[email protected]>; adi-
> [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: mark arch/blackfin/ and its gubbins as
> orphaned
>
> Looping in Arnd as arch maintainer.
>
> On Mon, Dec 25, 2017 at 4:38 PM, Adam Borowski <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > The blackfin architecture has seen no maintainer action of any kind
> > since April 2015. No new code, no pull requests, no acks to patches,
> > no response to mails, nothing.
> >
> > The web site has an expired certificate (expiration Sep 2017, issued
> > in 2013), the mailing list sees no answers either, with one exception:
> >
> > https://sourceforge.net/p/adi-buildroot/mailman/adi-buildroot-devel/
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> Steven is no longer working on this for ADI. Acked by me if this works. Thanks.
> >>
> >> Best regards,
> >> Aaron Wu
> >> Analog Devices Inc.
> >
> > But, Aaron doesn't seem to respond to queries either.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Adam Borowski <[email protected]>
>
> Acked-by: Linus Walleij <[email protected]>
>
> Yours,
> Linus Walleij