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SubjectRe: [i2c] Wanted: i2c subsystem co-maintainer
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On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 09:50:28AM +0100, Jean Delvare wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Mar 2008 18:45:12 +0100, Jean Delvare wrote:
> > I have a hard time maintaining the i2c subsystem alone. New drivers
> > and, more importantly, subsystem evolutions are submitted much faster
> > than I can review and merge them. I am hearing complaints about this.
> > It has been lasting for a while now and it doesn't seem like the
> > situation is going to improve. Thus, I think it would be better if
> > someone was co-maintaining the i2c subsystem with me.
> >
> > So, if anyone is interested in co-maintaining the i2c subsystem with
> > me, please let me know. The ideal candidate would come from the
> > embedded world, as I have absolutely no experience with this myself and
> > most of the new drivers are for embedded devices, and should have
> > contributed to the kernel in a significant way already.
>
> Ben Dooks agreed to become my co-maintainer for the i2c subsystem. In
> particular, Ben will help with drivers for embedded systems, of which
> my experience is inexistent. Thanks Ben and welcome on board!
>
> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Acked-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
> ---
> Ben, please give by your ack on this patch, then I will push it
> upstream.

Sorry, my main mailbox got hit by a major spam flood, have mostly
sorted this out now.

>
> MAINTAINERS | 2 ++
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> --- linux-2.6.25-rc6.orig/MAINTAINERS 2008-03-21 10:58:23.000000000 +0100
> +++ linux-2.6.25-rc6/MAINTAINERS 2008-03-23 15:16:11.000000000 +0100
> @@ -1883,6 +1883,8 @@ S: Maintained
> I2C SUBSYSTEM
> P: Jean Delvare
> M: khali@linux-fr.org
> +P: Ben Dooks
> +M: ben-linux@fluff.org
> L: i2c@lm-sensors.org
> T: quilt http://khali.linux-fr.org/devel/linux-2.6/jdelvare-i2c/
> S: Maintained
>
> --
> Jean Delvare

--
--
Ben

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