Re: [patch 2.6.21-rc2] parport is an orphan

From: Randy Dunlap
Date: Thu Mar 01 2007 - 11:48:24 EST


On Thu, 1 Mar 2007 09:02:49 +0100 Jean Delvare wrote:

> On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 15:14:20 -0800, David Brownell wrote:
> > The writing on the wall seem to be that the parport stack is orphaned,
> > rather than maintained by four folk ... and having a webpage that says
> > the latest patches are based on a 2.5 kernel.
>
> I share David's impression here. Andrew, can you please pick this patch?

Ditto.

> >
> > Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Acked-by: Jean Delvare <khali@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> >
> > Index: g26/MAINTAINERS
> > ===================================================================
> > --- g26.orig/MAINTAINERS 2007-02-28 12:46:00.000000000 -0800
> > +++ g26/MAINTAINERS 2007-02-28 12:47:58.000000000 -0800
> > @@ -2552,16 +2552,8 @@ L: i2c@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > S: Maintained
> >
> > PARALLEL PORT SUPPORT
> > -P: Phil Blundell
> > -M: philb@xxxxxxx
> > -P: Tim Waugh
> > -M: tim@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> > -P: David Campbell
> > -P: Andrea Arcangeli
> > -M: andrea@xxxxxxx
> > L: linux-parport@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > -W: http://people.redhat.com/twaugh/parport/
> > -S: Maintained
> > +S: Orphan
> >
> > PARIDE DRIVERS FOR PARALLEL PORT IDE DEVICES
> > P: Tim Waugh


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~Randy
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