Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: mark framebuffer as Orphan

[James Simmons]

> > > Alot of patches have been flowing into the layer.
> > 
> > So would you like to leave it as Maintained or change it to
> > "Odd Fixes"?  (Maintained => a maintainer)  From the MAINTAINTERS file:
> > 
> > 	Supported:	Someone is actually paid to look after this.
> > 	Maintained:	Someone actually looks after it.
> > 	Odd Fixes:	It has a maintainer but they don't have time to do
> > 			much other than throw the odd patch in. See below..
> > 	Orphan:		No current maintainer [but maybe you could take the
> > 			role as you write your new code].
> > 	Obsolete:	Old code. Something tagged obsolete generally means
> > 			it has been replaced by a better system and you
> > 			should be using that.
> >...
> 
> If you start doing this, there are a lot more entries that need to be 
> changed...
> 
> Which of Supported/Maintained/"Odd Fixes" is written doesn't matter in 
> practice.
> 
> What matters is that James' email address gets into the entry so that 
> patches and bug reports reach him.
> 
> James' work is definitely no below the average of entries marked as 
> Maintained.

At this point I would say maintained. Plus Tony is coming back :-)
Its just recently I have been working on various other things like the 
display class.
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