Re: [PATCH 4/4] MAINTAINERS: mark bcache as orphan

[Jens Axboe]

On 05/24/2016 11:07 PM, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> On Tue, 24 May 2016, Joe Perches wrote:
>
> > > The submitted patches are not being reacted upon, and Jens is only picking
> > > up stable fixes on an rather ad-hoc basis.
> > >
> > > Link: lkml.kernel.org/r/574462C5.40307@xxxxxxxxx
> > > Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@xxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > >   MAINTAINERS | 2 +-
> > >   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> > > index 5f83015..c9906d6 100644
> > > --- a/MAINTAINERS
> > > +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> > > @@ -2288,7 +2288,7 @@ BCACHE (BLOCK LAYER CACHE)
> > >   M:     Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@xxxxxxxxx>
> > >   L:     linux-bcache@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > >   W:     http://bcache.evilpiepirate.org
> > > -S:     Maintained
> > > +S:     Orphan
> > >   F:     drivers/md/bcache/
> >
> > Sections marked as Orphan generally
> > don't also have a named maintainer.
> >
> > Should Kent still be listed here?
>
> Thanks for the remark. I'd leave this up to Jens, as apparently at the end
> of the day he's the one relaying stability bugfixes upstream; so it might
> actually make sense to have him listed there eventually (while keeping the
> Orphan status).

Let's leave the entry. Kent is still around, it's just not actively 
being maintained.

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Jens Axboe