Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266481AbUIMJYo (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Sep 2004 05:24:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266486AbUIMJYm (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Sep 2004 05:24:42 -0400 Received: from www01.ies.inet6.fr ([62.210.153.201]:27584 "EHLO smtp.ies.inet6.fr") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266474AbUIMJYI (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Sep 2004 05:24:08 -0400 Message-ID: <4145672F.7060603@inet6.fr> Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 11:23:59 +0200 From: Lionel Bouton User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.1 (X11/20040626) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Cc: tglx@linutronix.de, LKML , Linux-IDE Subject: Re: [PATCH] sis5513 fix for SiS962 chipset References: <1094826555.7868.186.camel@thomas.tec.linutronix.de> <200409102321.17042.bzolnier@elka.pw.edu.pl> <4142D3AE.5050602@inet6.fr> <200409111802.45628.bzolnier@elka.pw.edu.pl> In-Reply-To: <200409111802.45628.bzolnier@elka.pw.edu.pl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Trusted: [ ip=62.210.105.37 rdns=ppp3290-cwdsl.fr.cw.net helo=proxy.inet6-interne.fr by=smtp.ies.inet6.fr ident= ] [ ip=192.168.50.116 rdns=bouton.inet6-interne.fr helo=!192.168.50.116! by=proxy.inet6-interne.fr ident= ] X-Spam-DCC: NIET: web01.inet6.ies 1080; IP=ok Body=1 Fuz1=1 Fuz2=1 X-Spam-Assassin: No hits=0.2 required=4.5 X-Spam-Untrusted: X-Spam-Pyzor: Reported 0 times. X-Spam-Report: * 0.2 AWL AWL: Auto-whitelist adjustment Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1161 Lines: 36 Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote the following on 09/11/2004 06:02 PM : >>In fact I think I'm only a speed bumper here. There's so little work to >>do on the sis5513 driver now that I don't follow IDE work closely >>anymore and must refresh my memories even for such simple patches. I >>believe there are people around more fit than me for sis5513 maintenance. >> >> > >I'm not aware of any such person... > > > Vojtech seemed quite proficient at sis5513.c hacking :-) > >Dedicated maintainers are very useful even for legacy drivers. >This way the subsystem maintainer doesn't have to worry about >every fscking driver (less bugs, faster development). :-) > > > Ok, if you think a dedicated maintainer is the way to go, I'll continue to review occasional patches. In fact I enjoy doing this from time to time, I was merely worried about not being the best fit for the job anymore. Regards, Lionel. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/