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Date:   Fri, 29 Apr 2022 21:59:50 +0200
From:   David Sterba <dave@jikos.cz>
To:     Kari Argillander <kari.argillander@stargateuniverse.net>
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Subject: Re: NTFS3 driver is orphan already. What we do?
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On Fri, Apr 29, 2022 at 07:45:42PM +0300, Kari Argillander wrote:
> On 28.4.2022 3.47, Namjae Jeon wrote:
> > 2022-04-28 2:47 GMT+09:00, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>:
> >> [ Sad state of affairs mostly edited out ]
> >>
> >> On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 2:22 AM Kari Argillander
> >> <kari.argillander@stargateuniverse.net> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> I also did suggest that I could co maintain this driver to take burden
> >>> from
> >>> Konstantin, but haven't got any replay.
> >>
> >> If you are willing to maintain it (and maybe find other like-minded
> >> people to help you), I think that would certainly be a thing to try.
> > I can help him.
> 
> We have now discuss with Namjae and we will start this and let's see
> where it goes. I will get my PGP signed soon. I really want code to be
> in kernel.org so that maintainership is easily transfer if necessary,
> but let's hope long and steady route now on.
> 
> Hopefully we are ready to start by next merge window.

Feel free to ping me if you have questions regarding the pull requests
or would like to have it checked before sending. It would be
disappointing to see the NTFS3 module removed, thanks for taking up the
torch.