Hi Mark, Andrew, On Fri, 1 Aug 2008 00:10:27 -0400, Mark M. Hoffman wrote: > Hi Linus: > > Please pull from: > git://lm-sensors.org/kernel/mhoffman/hwmon-2.6.git release > > You'll get what few patches I've managed to look at in the last few months, > including a patch to MAINTAINERS which makes it official. I'm sorry I was > not able to keep up - I should have admitted defeat much sooner. I'm sad to see you go (and can only hope that you won't leave the project entirely). But I would also like to thank you for the good work you've done. Even if it was short, everything you did is done and that's something you can be proud of. Especially given the conditions in which you started in this new role - please forgive me for that. > To all lm-sensors/hwmon developers: please resend/CC patches to Andrew. I have a number of hwmon patches in my local kernel tree which I wrote and that have been reviewed by a trusted developer, or that have been posted to the lm-sensors list and that I have reviewed. I consider these ready to go upstream. I plan to gather these into a public tree and push them to Linus today or tomorrow. In the future, I will probably have such a tree available to be included in linux-next. Don't get me wrong, I am _not_ volunteering to become the new hwmon subsystem maintainer. Remember, I've been there before and you know how it ended. But in the absence of a subsystem maintainer, I don't want hwmon patches to be lost (and especially not mine) and I don't think that pushing everything to Andrew is a good solution either. So I'm just proposing to do my part of the work. But if Andrew really prefers to pick all the patches, I am not insisting either. In the future, I would like to suggest to have 2 hwmon subsystem maintainers instead of 1. Apparently none of us has the time to do all the work, but maybe some of us would have the time to do half of it. This is the path I took for the i2c subsystem, and while the change is still fairly recent, it seems to be working well enough. -- Jean Delvare
