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Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 21:59:04 -0700 (PDT)
From: Alex Dubov <oakad@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: New MMC maintainer needed
To: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, linux-embedded@vger.kernel.org,
       Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>,
       Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@rfo.atmel.com>,
       Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>,
       Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>, David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>,
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       Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@nokia.com>,
       Pierre Ossman <pierre@ossman.eu>
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> I'm afraid the time has come for me
> to step down as maintainer for the
> MMC/SD/SDIO subsystem and for someone else to take over the
> rudder. It
> is no secret that I haven't been able to give the
> maintainer role the
> resources it required, and as a result it has gone from
> being a fun
> hobby to a burdensome chore. I was hoping it was a
> temporary slump, but
> this has been the norm for over a year now, so it's time
> for me to
> throw in the towel.

What an unfortunate thing.

Franky speaking, I couldn't manage any time to work on Linux
in the last year myself. I had such a great plans for Memstick
and such, yet none advanced.

At this rate, the future of the flash cards on Linux will
become highly uncertain.
:-(


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