zr36067 driver maintainership (was: [PATCH 1/2] zr36067: Convert to new-style i2c device binding)

["Ronald S. Bultje" <rbultje@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi JEan,

On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 11:15 AM, Jean Delvare <khali@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, 5 Sep 2008 10:40:16 -0400, Ronald S. Bultje wrote:
>> On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 9:56 AM, Jean Delvare <khali@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > Ronald, no feedback on these 2 patches? I would like to see them go in
>> > kernel 2.6.28, and for that I have to send them to Mauro Chehab soon.
>> > I'd rather have your ack before I do so.
>>
>> Oh, sorry, didn't know you wanted my input, it's OK of course, thanks
>> for your work.
>
> OK, I'll send these patches to Mauro later today then, thanks. I guess
> I can add your Acked-by on both?

Yes.

>> I have been very inactive on the driver front for multiple years, maybe
>> it's time someone (you) takes over the driver maintainer hat?
>
> Well, one thing for sure: if you don't feel like maintaining the zoran
> driver any longer, better remove yourself from MAINTAINERS. Nobody can
> force you to do it if you don't want to. And it will make things
> clearer for contributors and for Mauro as well, so we avoid unneeded
> delays.

If I'm causing delays, please let me know and I'll explicitely ack all
patches that I have no problems with.

As for the maintainer, it's not that I don't want to, it's more that I
feel that I'm currently not the best person to do it anymore. Mauro,
if I remove my patches, will you send patches upstream or will they
get dropped and ignored? I want to prevent the second from happening,
the driver is in a reasonable state (me and Laurent did a lot of work
on that). It's not perfect, for example the i2c-driver-interaction is
still v4l1, but other than that it works reasonably well. I'd like to
make sure the driver stays in the kernel for the foreseeable future.

Ronald

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