2007-05-13 23:07:59

by Dave Jones

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Subject: MAINTAINERS update.

I've not really 'maintained' this code for years, and others
are doing a much more thorough job these days.
Removing myself might stem some of the crazier emails I get.

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <[email protected]>

diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 68a56ad..21f3fff 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -1712,8 +1712,6 @@ L: [email protected]
S: Maintained

i386 SETUP CODE / CPU ERRATA WORKAROUNDS
-P: Dave Jones
-M: [email protected]
P: H. Peter Anvin
M: [email protected]
S: Maintained

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2007-05-13 23:11:15

by H. Peter Anvin

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Subject: Re: MAINTAINERS update.

Dave Jones wrote:
> I've not really 'maintained' this code for years, and others
> are doing a much more thorough job these days.
> Removing myself might stem some of the crazier emails I get.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <[email protected]>
>
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index 68a56ad..21f3fff 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -1712,8 +1712,6 @@ L: [email protected]
> S: Maintained
>
> i386 SETUP CODE / CPU ERRATA WORKAROUNDS
> -P: Dave Jones
> -M: [email protected]
> P: H. Peter Anvin
> M: [email protected]
> S: Maintained

To the extent needed...

Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <[email protected]>

2007-05-13 23:30:22

by Dave Jones

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Subject: Re: MAINTAINERS update.

On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 04:10:52PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Dave Jones wrote:
> > I've not really 'maintained' this code for years, and others
> > are doing a much more thorough job these days.
> > Removing myself might stem some of the crazier emails I get.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <[email protected]>
> >
> > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> > index 68a56ad..21f3fff 100644
> > --- a/MAINTAINERS
> > +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> > @@ -1712,8 +1712,6 @@ L: [email protected]
> > S: Maintained
> >
> > i386 SETUP CODE / CPU ERRATA WORKAROUNDS
> > -P: Dave Jones
> > -M: [email protected]
> > P: H. Peter Anvin
> > M: [email protected]
> > S: Maintained
>
> To the extent needed...
>
> Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <[email protected]>

That previous entry of MAINTAINERS raised an eyebrow too.
You, Eric, Andi, and Zach seem to have done more work on 'i386 BOOT CODE'
in the last few months than I recall Riley doing, well.. since ages.
Not to belittle whatever work he did, but perhaps his entry belongs
more in CREDITS than MAINTAINERS. It felt a little cheeky to be
messing with someone elses entry though. Riley?

Perhaps those two entries should just be merged together to become
"i386 Architecture" too ?

Dave

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2007-05-14 00:27:15

by H. Peter Anvin

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Subject: Re: MAINTAINERS update.

Dave Jones wrote:
>
> That previous entry of MAINTAINERS raised an eyebrow too.
> You, Eric, Andi, and Zach seem to have done more work on 'i386 BOOT CODE'
> in the last few months than I recall Riley doing, well.. since ages.
> Not to belittle whatever work he did, but perhaps his entry belongs
> more in CREDITS than MAINTAINERS. It felt a little cheeky to be
> messing with someone elses entry though. Riley?
>

Riley passed away about a month ago (traffic accident.)

Anyway I have a patch to take over maintainership of that as part of my
rewrite of said code:

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/hpa/linux-2.6-newsetup.git;a=summary

> Perhaps those two entries should just be merged together to become
> "i386 Architecture" too ?

That would not be a bad idea; overall, though, I think a lot more code
should be unified across the entire x86 architecture.

-hpa

2007-05-15 23:25:26

by Michael McConnell

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Subject: Re: MAINTAINERS update.

On Sun, 13 May 2007 17:26:13 -0700, H. Peter Anvin <[email protected]> wrote:
>Dave Jones wrote:
>>
>> That previous entry of MAINTAINERS raised an eyebrow too.
>> You, Eric, Andi, and Zach seem to have done more work on 'i386 BOOT CODE'
>> in the last few months than I recall Riley doing, well.. since ages.
>> Not to belittle whatever work he did, but perhaps his entry belongs
>> more in CREDITS than MAINTAINERS. It felt a little cheeky to be
>> messing with someone elses entry though. Riley?
>>
>
>Riley passed away about a month ago (traffic accident.)

The news article I mentioned in my email is dated 15 December 2004.

(I don't often read the MAINTAINERS file, but happened to spot him still
listed there when I had a look recently. I was in Riley's class at
university.)

I hope this post makes it through, I'm posting via Gmane's NNTP server.

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2007-05-16 06:04:51

by H. Peter Anvin

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Subject: Re: MAINTAINERS update.

Soruk wrote:
>>>
>> Riley passed away about a month ago (traffic accident.)
>
> The news article I mentioned in my email is dated 15 December 2004.
>

Oh dear. News travels slowly sometimes :(

> (I don't often read the MAINTAINERS file, but happened to spot him still
> listed there when I had a look recently. I was in Riley's class at
> university.)

Very sad, all around :(

> I hope this post makes it through, I'm posting via Gmane's NNTP server.

Got it fine.

-hpa