Re: [PATCH] watchdog: ebc-c384_wdt: Remove support

[Guenter Roeck]

On 4/10/23 07:51, William Breathitt Gray wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 10, 2023 at 07:43:37AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > On 4/10/23 07:31, William Breathitt Gray wrote:
> > > The current maintainer no longer has access to the device for testing,
> > > the original user of this driver indicates that they have moved on to
> > > another device, and the manufacturer WINSYSTEMS does not appear
> > > interested in taking over support for this code.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: William Breathitt Gray <william.gray@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > A bit harsh, maybe. Just mark it as orphan for the time being.
> >
> > I see there are other Winsystems drivers. What are you going to do
> > with those ?
> >
> > Guenter
>
> Oops, I didn't mean for that commit message to sound so harsh but merely
> log some brief reasons for the support removal for posterity. However, I
> adjust this to orphan status rather than dropping; what is the process
> to mark a driver as orphaned?

I didn't refer to the description when saying "harsh" (the description was fine),
I meant to say that removing the driver would be a bit harsh. There might still
be some (unknown) users, after all.

Just submit a patch removing yourself as driver maintainer and mark its
status as "Orphan", with the same explanation.

Thanks,
Guenter

> As for the other Winsystems drivers, I'm still able to test those so I
> can continue maintainance of those -- although I'm always open if
> WINSYSTEMS would like to join as a supporter, or a user co-maintainer
> comes along. ;-)
>
> William Breathitt Gray