2014-12-19 09:22:12

by Henrik Rydberg

Subject: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Update rydberg's addresses

My ISP finally gave up on the old mail address, so I am moving things
over to bitmath.org instead. Also change the status fields to better
reflect reality.

Signed-off-by: Henrik Rydberg <[email protected]>
---
MAINTAINERS | 12 ++++++------
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index c721042..62b53e8 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -714,15 +714,15 @@ F: include/uapi/linux/apm_bios.h
F: drivers/char/apm-emulation.c

APPLE BCM5974 MULTITOUCH DRIVER
-M: Henrik Rydberg <[email protected]>
+M: Henrik Rydberg <[email protected]>
L: [email protected]
-S: Maintained
+S: Odd fixes
F: drivers/input/mouse/bcm5974.c

APPLE SMC DRIVER
-M: Henrik Rydberg <[email protected]>
+M: Henrik Rydberg <[email protected]>
L: [email protected]
-S: Maintained
+S: Odd fixes
F: drivers/hwmon/applesmc.c

APPLETALK NETWORK LAYER
@@ -4813,10 +4813,10 @@ F: include/uapi/linux/input.h
F: include/linux/input/

INPUT MULTITOUCH (MT) PROTOCOL
-M: Henrik Rydberg <[email protected]>
+M: Henrik Rydberg <[email protected]>
L: [email protected]
T: git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rydberg/input-mt.git
-S: Maintained
+S: Odd fixes
F: Documentation/input/multi-touch-protocol.txt
F: drivers/input/input-mt.c
K: \b(ABS|SYN)_MT_
--
2.1.3

2015-02-15 12:19:27

by Pavel Machek

Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Update rydberg's addresses

On Wed 2015-01-21 20:38:46, Henrik Rydberg wrote:
> Hi Benjamin,
>
> > - there is a fragmentation problem: we would have to fix the bug in
> > xorg-synaptics (which is slowly waiting for its death), libinput,
> > ChromeOS, Qt Embedded, Kivy (I think), etc...
>
> Indeed, this is the problem I wanted to highlight. As the fragmentation problem
> grows (graphics, input, compositors, toolkits), the need for a common
> denominator grows as well. However, I do not think the kernel should be the
> single common denominator for all the world's problems. Rather, the purpose of
> the kernel is to convey hardware information and control as accurately,
> effectively and generically as possible.

No, sorry, that's not true.

Kernel should provide hardware abstraction, hiding differences between
different machines.
Pavel
--
(english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek
(cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html