Re: MAINTAINERS: Remove Mark M. Hoffman

From: Jean Delvare
Date: Wed Feb 13 2013 - 05:39:23 EST


On Tue, 12 Feb 2013 16:46:01 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Feb 2013 10:54:37 +0100
> Jean Delvare <khali@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Mark M. Hoffman stopped working on the Linux kernel several years
> > ago, so he should no longer be listed as a driver maintainer. I'm not
> > even sure if his e-mail address still works.
> >
> > I can take over 3 drivers he was responsible for, the 4th one will
> > fall down to the subsystem maintainer.
>
> It's nice to give developers a mention in ./CREDITS if we're to expunge
> them from ./MAINTAINERS. Something like this?
>
> --- a/CREDITS~maintainers-remove-mark-m-hoffman-fix
> +++ a/CREDITS
> @@ -1510,6 +1510,11 @@ D: Natsemi ethernet
> D: Cobalt Networks (x86) support
> D: This-and-That
>
> +N: Mark M. Hoffman
> +E: mhoffman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> +D: Maintenance of drivers/hwmon/asb100.c, drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-sis96x.c
> +D: i2c core contributions
> +
> N: Dirk Hohndel
> E: hohndel@xxxxxxx
> D: The XFree86[tm] Project

Mark did more than this. He actually wrote the asb100 and i2c-sis96x
drivers, and also the i2c-stub, lm93, smsc47b397 and core hwmon
drivers. He has also been the hwmon subsystem maintainer for one year.

OTOH I do not remember significant contributions from him to the i2c
core.

I'll send a version 2 of the patch.

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Jean Delvare
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