On Tue, 2021-10-19 at 09:55 +0300, Laurent Pinchart wrote: > Hi Tim, > > On Mon, Oct 18, 2021 at 03:17:22PM -0600, Tim Bird wrote: > > I think an overhaul of the "EMBEDDED LINUX" MAINTAINERS entry > > is long-overdue. > > > > No offense to any of the 3 persons listed, but I think the kernel developer > > community would be better served by a group of individuals with a more > > current active role in embedded linux. I have a few names I'll > > toss out for > > candidates: Matt Porter, Kevin Hilman, Thomas Gleixner, Thomas > > Petazonni, Laurent Pinchart, and Uwe Kleine-König (and maybe even > > myself). > > > > This entry in the MAINTAINERS file is somewhat special, in that it > > covers a "field of endeavor" rather than a specific set of files or > > directories. > > > > Thoughts? > > Thank you for volunteering me :-) > > I was indeed wondering about this particular MAINTAINERS entry. As it > doesn't cover any particular set of files, directories, drivers, > subsystems or architectures, what does being listed here endeavour ? Basically nothing; I was going to suggest removing it entirely. There's certainly no point listing me there any more. Once upon a time it involved a certain amount of heckling about memory usage and "your hash table doesn't need to be that large" but that ship sailed a long time ago :)
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