[PATCH 1/2] MAINTAINERS: update brcmstb entries

Brian Norris computersforpeace at gmail.com
Wed Jan 14 16:13:40 PST 2015


Since I found this in my inbox during garbage collection...

On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 3:23 PM, Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/04/2014 02:56 PM, Grant Likely wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 10:48 PM, Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On 11/04/2014 12:45 PM, Olof Johansson wrote:
>>>> On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 11:44:54AM -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote:
>>>>> Remove Marc Carino from the brcmstb maintainers list and add Gregory
>>>>> Fong and myself as new maintainers for the brcmstb platform.
>>>>>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli at gmail.com>
>>>>> ---
>>>>>  MAINTAINERS | 3 ++-
>>>>>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>>>
>>>>> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
>>>>> index dab92a78d1d5..33a8b31e03f0 100644
>>>>> --- a/MAINTAINERS
>>>>> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
>>>>> @@ -2093,8 +2093,9 @@ F:     arch/arm/mach-bcm/bcm63xx.c
>>>>>  F:  arch/arm/include/debug/bcm63xx.S
>>>>>
>>>>>  BROADCOM BCM7XXX ARM ARCHITECTURE
>>>>> -M:  Marc Carino <marc.ceeeee at gmail.com>
>>>>>  M:  Brian Norris <computersforpeace at gmail.com>
>>>>> +M:  Gregory Fong <gregory.0xf0 at gmail.com>
>>>>> +M:  Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli at gmail.com>
>>>>
>>>> You're removing Marc here, but I don't see an ack from him, nor has
>>>> he been cc:d on the patch. It's common practice for people to agree to
>>>> being removed. Can you please make sure we get an ack from him on this,
>>>> maybe by reposting and cc:ing him?
>>>
>>> Marc is no longer with Broadcom, do you still want him to ack this?
>>
>> Yes, absolutely. Maintainership is entrusted to an individual, not
>> their employer. We've had many situations where someone has continued
>> to maintain a platform even after changing employment. So, yes, there
>> needs to be an ack from Marc.
>
> He is CC'd, now. Marc, please Ack this if you are okay with the change.

Can we add a "Not-nacked-by" tag and proceed? Marc is obviously not
involved here any more. I figure removing expired maintainers should
be a little easier than removing SCOTUS judges.

Brian



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