Re: [Kgdb-bugreport] [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: kgdb: Replace Jason with Daniel

[Daniel Thompson]

On 05/12/17 14:37, Jason Wessel wrote:
> On 12/05/2017 08:09 AM, Lee Jones wrote:
> > 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:
> > > ÂÂÂÂ Over the years Jason has become increasingly hard to get hold off
> > > ÂÂÂÂ and I think he must now be regarded as inactive.
> > > ÂÂÂÂ Patches in kgdb-next (mine as it happens) have been there for 
> > > over a
> > > ÂÂÂÂ year without a corresponding pull request and a couple of 
> > > architecture
> > > ÂÂÂÂ specific kgdb fixes have ended up missing a release cycle (or 
> > > two) as
> > > ÂÂÂÂ the architecture maintainer waits for an Acked-by from Jason.
> > > ÂÂÂÂ In the past I've had to rely on Andrew M. to land my own changes to
> > > ÂÂÂÂ kgdb and in the v4.14 cycle you'll find my Acked-by on b8347c219649
> > > ÂÂÂÂ ("x86/debug: Handle warnings before the notifier chain, to fix KGDB
> > > ÂÂÂÂ crash"). That I was sharing surrogate acks convinced me we need a
> > > ÂÂÂÂ change here and I've offered Jason help via private e-mail without
> > > ÂÂÂÂ reply.
> > > ÂÂÂÂ So, I really would prefer it it if this patch listed me as a
> > > ÂÂÂÂ co-maintainer or, failing that, as least had Jason's blessing... 
> > > but
> > > ÂÂÂÂ it doesn't. I certainly suggest this patch takes a long time in
> > > ÂÂÂÂ review, and if it doesn't attract Jason's attention then I can only
> > > ÂÂÂÂ reiterate what is says in the commit log: Thanks Jason!
> > >
> > > Â MAINTAINERS | 3 +--
> > > Â 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 have not been working directly on upstream kernel contributions for 
> quite some time. It doesn't mean I haven't been involved with kernel 
> development. Patches that I have reviewed or suggested to other 
> developers generally don't bare my name. I wouldn't mind trying to take 
> a slightly more gradual passing of the baton and add Daniel as 
> co-maintainer for a while before I retire from kernel work and merge 
> myself away in the coming years. :-)

Great to hear from you again! I shall consider this patch nacked or the 
time being ;-)... and if you are happy with help from me I shall leave 
it to you to propose an update to MAINTAINERS.


> I have a series of 50+ patches for kgdb/kdb/usb which have never been 
> published. I am not saying that we actually need any of those patches, 
> but it would be nice to let the community decide, and we can see if 
> there is anything worth merging into the next cycle or future work with 
> other maintainers.ÂÂ My kernel.org tree stopped working a long time ago, 
> probably from inactivity. I'll see if that can get restored in the next 
> few days, or I'll use my github tree and send the unpublished work to 
> the mailing list as an RFC.

I, for one, would be interested to see these.


Daniel.