Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: mark framebuffer as Orphan

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On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 13:25:49 -0800
Randy Dunlap <[email protected]> wrote:

> From: Randy Dunlap <[email protected]>
> 
> Are we ready to do this?
> I'd love for Tony to return, but he's been missing for awhile now.
> 
> So this give us the following major areas that are marked as Orphan:
> 
> Firmware loader
> Framebuffer
> Serial (8250/16x50)
> 
> and PCMCIA has a Team.  It doesn't seem to be hurting.  :)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <[email protected]>
> ---
>  MAINTAINERS |    4 +---
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> --- linux-2.6.20-git9.orig/MAINTAINERS
> +++ linux-2.6.20-git9/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -1321,11 +1321,9 @@ W:	http://www.farsite.co.uk/
>  S:	Supported
>  
>  FRAMEBUFFER LAYER
> -P:	Antonino Daplas
> -M:	[email protected]
>  L:	[email protected] (subscribers-only)
>  W:	http://linux-fbdev.sourceforge.net/
> -S:	Maintained
> +S:	Orphan

No, James is keeping an eye on things, but he obviously doesn't have as
much time to work on it as Tony did.

My point was that for bugs such as the one Pavel identified we're no longer
able to palm it off on the maintainer and expect magic to happen.  Either we
all dig in and help out or things don't get fixed.
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