Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: remove Richard Purdie as backlightmaintainer

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Thu Oct 03 2013 - 20:42:49 EST


On Fri, 04 Oct 2013 08:50:57 +0900 Jingoo Han <jg1.han@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Friday, October 04, 2013 8:21 AM, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Fri, 27 Sep 2013 12:59:28 +0900 Jingoo Han <jg1.han@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > Remove Richard Purdie as backlight subsystem maintainer, since he
> > > is not responding for a few years.
> >
> > It's nice to give a person a ./CREDITS entry when we remove them from
> > ./MAINTAINERS.
>
> However, Richard Purdie still remains as maintainers of other two entries
> as below:
> In this case, is it still necessary give him a ./CREDITS entry?

Necessary? No. Nice? Yes ;) I like to think that it reduces any of
the sting from being removed from MAINTAINERS. Plus it is more
accurate and costs nothing.

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