Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Set ARM/LPC18XX architecture orphan

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Mon Sep 24 2018 - 11:42:20 EST


On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 5:19 PM Vladimir Zapolskiy <vz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 09/24/2018 04:19 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 6:43 AM Daniel Lezcano
> > <daniel.lezcano@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> While sending patches around, Joachim Eastwood was Cc'ed but I got an error
> >> its mailbox was full and the mail can not be delivered which makes me think
> >> there is no body at the other end of the line.
> >>
> >> After doing some statistics, it appears the latest commit as author/commiter
> >> is:
> >>
> >> commit b16ebc017ebf52a81e5e88743ccd68fc25e99ba9
> >> Author: Joachim Eastwood <manabian@xxxxxxxxx>
> >> Date: Mon Oct 31 14:45:17 2016 +0000
> >>
> >> Remove the maintainer entry and set the component as orphan.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> >
> > I also checked the github account and any other mails I could
> > find from Joachim, which stopped around the same time.
> >
> > I've added the lpc32xx maintainers to Cc, as the two platforms are
> > related. Maybe they are interested in picking up support for this
> > as well, and/or merge the two directories into one (there is only
> > one trivial file in mach-lpc18xx, the rest are drivers).
> >
>
> I'm interested in maintenance of lpc18xx/lpc43xx, I have one board
> powered by LPC4357, so it would make the maintenance easier for me,
> also multiple controllers are equal on lpc18xx/lpc43xx and lpc32xx,
> and thus familiar to me.
>
> And I greatly appreciate Joachim's contribution, all platform drivers
> written by Joachim are of perfect quality.
>
> I'll send a patch to MAINTAINERS later on.

Awesome, thanks for stepping up!

Arnd