Return-path: Received: from 80-190-117-144.ip-home.de ([80.190.117.144]:60214 "EHLO bu3sch.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755821Ab0FYNXA (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Jun 2010 09:23:00 -0400 Message-ID: <4C24AD94.8030101@bu3sch.de> Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2010 15:22:28 +0200 From: =?UTF-8?B?TWljaGFlbCBCw7xzY2g=?= MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Larry Finger CC: Joe Perches , "John W. Linville" , Stefano Brivio , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, zajec5@gmail.com, =?UTF-8?B?R8OhYm9yIFN0ZWY=?= =?UTF-8?B?YW5paw==?= Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] MAINTAINERS: b43 updates References: <20100624185339.GC2368@tuxdriver.com> <1277408432.1654.80.camel@Joe-Laptop.home> <4C23B877.4060209@lwfinger.net> <1277423102.1654.107.camel@Joe-Laptop.home> <4C23EFDE.3000702@lwfinger.net> <1277423829.1654.111.camel@Joe-Laptop.home> <4C241770.6030701@lwfinger.net> (sfid-20100625_044106_571980_FFFFFFFFAF5EC8B1) In-Reply-To: <4C241770.6030701@lwfinger.net> (sfid-20100625_044106_571980_FFFFFFFFAF5EC8B1) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 06/25/2010 04:41 AM, Larry Finger wrote: > On 06/24/2010 06:57 PM, Joe Perches wrote: >> On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 18:53 -0500, Larry Finger wrote: >>> I never said that b43 is unmaintained. It is definitely getting much >>> more than "odd fixes". >> >> If Stefano isn't maintaining it, who is? > > We are working on that. Well, there are some developers working on the driver and there are some developers that do not actively work on the driver but used to work on it in the past (that includes me). Neither of them is an official maintainer (yet). I used to be a maintainer, but I dropped my official MAINTAINERS file entry, because I do not actively work on b43 anymore. However, I still read the patches going into the driver and comment on them as appropriate. So well. I think b43 does not have a maintainer. But it's not unmaintained. There are lots of people working on it. I don't think an official maintainer is needed. Patches are sent directly to John (the wireless maintainer) and the b43 development crew reviews them. There's no problem with that. -- Greetings Michael.