Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: kgdb: Replace Jason with Daniel

[Lee Jones]

On Tue, 05 Dec 2017, Daniel Thompson wrote:

> ... with many, many thanks for Jason for all his hard work.
> 
> Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> 
> Notes:
>     Over the years Jason has become increasingly hard to get hold off
>     and I think he must now be regarded as inactive.
>     
>     Patches in kgdb-next (mine as it happens) have been there for over a
>     year without a corresponding pull request and a couple of architecture
>     specific kgdb fixes have ended up missing a release cycle (or two) as
>     the architecture maintainer waits for an Acked-by from Jason.
>     
>     In the past I've had to rely on Andrew M. to land my own changes to
>     kgdb and in the v4.14 cycle you'll find my Acked-by on b8347c219649
>     ("x86/debug: Handle warnings before the notifier chain, to fix KGDB
>     crash"). That I was sharing surrogate acks convinced me we need a
>     change here and I've offered Jason help via private e-mail without
>     reply.
>     
>     So, I really would prefer it it if this patch listed me as a
>     co-maintainer or, failing that, as least had Jason's blessing... but
>     it doesn't. I certainly suggest this patch takes a long time in
>     review, and if it doesn't attract Jason's attention then I can only
>     reiterate what is says in the commit log: Thanks Jason!
> 
>  MAINTAINERS | 3 +--
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

It looks like Jason has been inactive in all aspects of upstream
maintainership and as a contributor for well over a year now.

I strongly support the move to make Daniel KGDB Maintainer:

  Acked-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@xxxxxxxxxx>

(NB: If this patch does not receive any opposition by the end of this
cycle, it would be my pleasure to take it through one of my trees.) 

-- 
Lee Jones
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