Return-path: Received: from senator.holtmann.net ([87.106.208.187]:38872 "EHLO mail.holtmann.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752092AbYHBCLc (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Aug 2008 22:11:32 -0400 Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Message-Id: (sfid-20080802_041137_790979_3ED3E3C6) From: Marcel Holtmann To: Pavel Roskin In-Reply-To: <1217634358.2731.8.camel@dv> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v928.1) Subject: Re: Resignation from orinoco and at76_usb Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2008 04:11:26 +0200 References: <1217634358.2731.8.camel@dv> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi Pavel, > I would like to resign as maintainer of orinoco and at76_usb > drivers. I > was genuinely interested in getting most of the hardware supported by > those drivers, but as it stands now, I simple cannot find time for > either of them. I believe it is harmful for both projects to have an > unresponsive maintainer who does not have time to review patches and > answer questions about the project. Perhaps it's better not to have > any > maintainer, so that an interested person could step in. > > Please let me know what steps I should take. I believe it should be a > patch removing my name from the MAINTAINERS file. Anything else? do you have any pending patches that are not in wireless-testing? I at least remember that I have seen some Orinoco WPA stuff going on. It would be good to get at least these things sorted out before you resign from both drivers. Regards Marcel