Hi, Johan Hovold: > > > -USB OPTION-CARD DRIVER > > > -M: Matthias Urlichs <smurf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > -L: linux-usb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > -S: Maintained > > > -F: drivers/usb/serial/option.c > > > > Why are we taking away the maintainership of these individual drivers > > from these developers? I had no problem giving you the drivers I was > > supposed to be in charge of, but I need a signed-off-by from Matthias > > and Oliver for these if they want to do the same. > > I honestly thought you had just missed these entries when you removed > individual maintainership for the other usb-serial drivers with the > motivation that the developers were not around and that maintainership > for individual drivers did not make much sense anymore (as consolidation > proceeds, I read). (These two entries were also not grouped with the > others.) > > Oliver and perhaps also Mathias are still around, but the option driver > is now down to about 200 LOC (including boilerplate) when not counting > the id table, while the kl5kusb105 is currently at about 400 LOC > (including boilerplate) since I converted it to use the generic > implementation a few years ago. > > Oliver and Mathias, what do you think of this? Would you be willing to > sign off on this patch? > Fine by me. While I am indeed "still around", Option doesn't need a maintainer any more -- the thing just works, and I do not see any need for driver-specific changes other than additions to the ID table. You hardly need a maintainer for that. -- -- Matthias Urlichs
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