Mailing List Archive: [patch 2.6.21-rc2] parport is an orphan

[patch 2.6.21-rc2] parport is an orphan

Feb 28, 2007, 3:14 PM

Post #1 of 3 (308 views)

The writing on the wall seem to be that the parport stack is orphaned,
rather than maintained by four folk ... and having a webpage that says
the latest patches are based on a 2.5 kernel.

Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>

Index: g26/MAINTAINERS
===================================================================
--- g26.orig/MAINTAINERS 2007-02-28 12:46:00.000000000 -0800
+++ g26/MAINTAINERS 2007-02-28 12:47:58.000000000 -0800
@@ -2552,16 +2552,8 @@ L: i2c@lm-sensors.org
S: Maintained

PARALLEL PORT SUPPORT
-P: Phil Blundell
-M: philb@gnu.org
-P: Tim Waugh
-M: tim@cyberelk.net
-P: David Campbell
-P: Andrea Arcangeli
-M: andrea@suse.de
L: linux-parport@lists.infradead.org
-W: http://people.redhat.com/twaugh/parport/
-S: Maintained
+S: Orphan

PARIDE DRIVERS FOR PARALLEL PORT IDE DEVICES
P: Tim Waugh
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Re: [patch 2.6.21-rc2] parport is an orphan [ In reply to ]

khali at linux-fr

Mar 1, 2007, 12:02 AM

Post #2 of 3 (284 views)

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On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 15:14:20 -0800, David Brownell wrote:
> The writing on the wall seem to be that the parport stack is orphaned,
> rather than maintained by four folk ... and having a webpage that says
> the latest patches are based on a 2.5 kernel.

I share David's impression here. Andrew, can you please pick this patch?

>
> Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>

Acked-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>

>
> Index: g26/MAINTAINERS
> ===================================================================
> --- g26.orig/MAINTAINERS 2007-02-28 12:46:00.000000000 -0800
> +++ g26/MAINTAINERS 2007-02-28 12:47:58.000000000 -0800
> @@ -2552,16 +2552,8 @@ L: i2c@lm-sensors.org
> S: Maintained
>
> PARALLEL PORT SUPPORT
> -P: Phil Blundell
> -M: philb@gnu.org
> -P: Tim Waugh
> -M: tim@cyberelk.net
> -P: David Campbell
> -P: Andrea Arcangeli
> -M: andrea@suse.de
> L: linux-parport@lists.infradead.org
> -W: http://people.redhat.com/twaugh/parport/
> -S: Maintained
> +S: Orphan
>
> PARIDE DRIVERS FOR PARALLEL PORT IDE DEVICES
> P: Tim Waugh

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Jean Delvare
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Re: [patch 2.6.21-rc2] parport is an orphan [ In reply to ]

randy.dunlap at oracle

Mar 1, 2007, 8:43 AM

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On Thu, 1 Mar 2007 09:02:49 +0100 Jean Delvare wrote:

> On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 15:14:20 -0800, David Brownell wrote:
> > The writing on the wall seem to be that the parport stack is orphaned,
> > rather than maintained by four folk ... and having a webpage that says
> > the latest patches are based on a 2.5 kernel.
>
> I share David's impression here. Andrew, can you please pick this patch?

Ditto.

> >
> > Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
>
> Acked-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
>
> >
> > Index: g26/MAINTAINERS
> > ===================================================================
> > --- g26.orig/MAINTAINERS 2007-02-28 12:46:00.000000000 -0800
> > +++ g26/MAINTAINERS 2007-02-28 12:47:58.000000000 -0800
> > @@ -2552,16 +2552,8 @@ L: i2c@lm-sensors.org
> > S: Maintained
> >
> > PARALLEL PORT SUPPORT
> > -P: Phil Blundell
> > -M: philb@gnu.org
> > -P: Tim Waugh
> > -M: tim@cyberelk.net
> > -P: David Campbell
> > -P: Andrea Arcangeli
> > -M: andrea@suse.de
> > L: linux-parport@lists.infradead.org
> > -W: http://people.redhat.com/twaugh/parport/
> > -S: Maintained
> > +S: Orphan
> >
> > PARIDE DRIVERS FOR PARALLEL PORT IDE DEVICES
> > P: Tim Waugh

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