Re: [PATCH 1/4] strip: move driver to staging

From: Greg KH
Date: Mon Oct 26 2009 - 14:54:01 EST


On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 10:18:20AM -0700, david@xxxxxxx wrote:
> if someone were to claim 'maintainership' and then do nothing other than
> complain if someone else were to change an API but not fix this in the
> process, how would this be different than the current situation?

A person "claiming maintainership" would then be responsible for keeping
the API up to date and ensuring that the driver worked. To do that,
hardware would probably need to be present.

Do you have this kind of hardware and are willing to accept ownership of
this driver?

thanks,

greg k-h
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