Hi Mark, On 4/15/07, Mark M. Hoffman <mhoffman at lightlink.com> wrote: > Hi Jean, et al: > > * Jean Delvare <khali at linux-fr.org> [2007-04-10 15:02:27 +0200]: > > I am resigning from my role as hardware monitoring subsystem > > (drivers/hwmon) maintainer. This is too much work for me, I do not have > > the necessary bandwidth to review all the incoming patches, in > > particular new drivers, in a timely manner. Patch authors have been > > complaining about this repeatedly. This is no fun for them, and even > > less for me, so I'd rather let someone else with more spare time take > > care of it. If there are volunteers, this is the right time to speak up. > > > > I will still be maintaining the individual hardware monitoring drivers > > I am listed for in file MAINTAINERS (adm1025, f71805f, lm83 and lm90) > > as well as the I2C subsystem. No change here. > > > > I will continue to feed -mm with pending hwmon patches until 2.6.21 > > final is released, then I'll send everything I have to Linus for > > 2.6.22-rc1, the last of which will be: > > (...) > > /me throws hat in > > I volunteer to become the new MAINTAINER, but in a much more limited sense > of the term than Jean is/was. I can take care of a couple git trees, and do > some detailed reviews when I have time. For the most part, I will have to > rely on others to do reviews as well. > > I would not be volunteering for this role, if Juerg and others had not also > volunteered to be more active reviewers. > > As for the discussions later in this thread about process... IMHO that's a > little premature. I intend to get brand new stuff into -mm perhaps a little > earlier than Jean did... but it still ain't going to Linus before it's ready. > Other than that, I would rather just see what works for me and for you (other > hwmon authors). > > Assuming no one else wants the job (ruik?) I'll start working with Jean to > get things set up as soon as I can. Thanks a lot Mark! I'm sure everybody appreciates very much that you volunteer for this position. ...juerg > Thanks & regards, > > -- > Mark M. Hoffman > mhoffman at lightlink.com > >
