Re: [PATCH] EDAC/thunderx: Replace strlcat() with snprintf() and seq_buf

[Robert Richter]

On 10.08.26 06:45:06, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 10, 2026 at 03:27:12PM +0200, Robert Richter wrote:
> > However, the driver has several issues. I asked Marvell a while ago to
> > take over maintainership, but never got a response. I don't have
> > hardware to test changes. If you mean to mark the driver obsolete, I
> > am good with it. On the other hand, the issues found may not actually
> > trigger and only affect a single system. If we can live with it, we
> > could leave it as is.
> 
> I am sorting out stuff which needs maintaining from obsolete gunk, which is not
> used anymore and which doesn't need any maintenance effort or no one cares for
> it anymore and there's no point to waste precious resources for.
> 
> So I'm going to do this but we can always revert it if someone shows interest.
> 
> ---
> Author: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date:   Mon Aug 10 06:40:13 2026 -0700
> 
>     EDAC/thunderx: Orphan it
>     
>     Robert doesn't have hardware to test patches anymore and no one else has
>     shown interest in maintaining this driver, so orphan it, for now at
>     least.
>     
>     Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@xxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Robert Richter <rric@xxxxxxxxxx>

> 
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index d413dac5c8b3..671515d21bfc 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -9308,9 +9308,8 @@ S:	Maintained
>  F:	drivers/edac/octeon_edac*
>  
>  EDAC-CAVIUM THUNDERX
> -M:	Robert Richter <rric@xxxxxxxxxx>
>  L:	linux-edac@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> -S:	Odd Fixes
> +S:	Orphan
>  F:	drivers/edac/thunderx_edac*
>  
>  EDAC-CORE
> 
> ---
> 
> Thx.
> 
> -- 
> Regards/Gruss,
>     Boris.
> 
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