Re: [PATCH net v2 1/2] MAINTAINERS: Move M Chetan Kumar to CREDITS

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

On 24.10.23 09:40, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Mon, 2023-10-23 at 18:52 -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
>>
>>> He's now in a state of limbo. He has significant contribution
>>> (and gets listed by get_maintainer script with (AFAIK) no way
>>> to filter him out), yet emails to him bounces. What will be
>>> the resolution then?
>>
>> Yes :( Not much we can do about that (even if we drop him from
>> maintainers all fixes will CC him based on the sign-off tags).
> 
> I was hoping he'd chime in here - I did manage to find him at his
> personal address, but I didn't want to just add his personal address to
> the public list.
> 
> If he's OK with exposing his personal (or new work?) address I guess we
> could add him to the .mailmap, to address this particular problem.
> 
> Anyway I've BCC'ed him now (Hi Chetan :) ), but he had also said he was
> checking with his new work about this all.

[reviving a old thread]

Johannes, if you have a minute: did anything ever come out of that? Or
did anyone else step in to take care of Intels's IOSM driver? Martian
(now CCed) struggles with a problem
(https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=218383 [no, not a
regression iirc]) for a while now and is kinda stuck. We discussed
off-list submitting a "mark as orphan" patch, but then I found this
discussion.

Ciao, Thorsten