On 12/05/2017 08:55 AM, Daniel Thompson wrote:
On 05/12/17 14:37, Jason Wessel wrote:
On 12/05/2017 08:09 AM, Lee Jones wrote:
On Tue, 05 Dec 2017, Daniel Thompson wrote:
... with many, many thanks for Jason for all his hard work.
Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wes...@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thomp...@linaro.org>
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Notes:
Over the years Jason has become increasingly hard to get hold off
and I think he must now be regarded as inactive.
Patches in kgdb-next (mine as it happens) have been there for
over a
year without a corresponding pull request and a couple of
architecture
specific kgdb fixes have ended up missing a release cycle (or
two) as
the architecture maintainer waits for an Acked-by from Jason.
In the past I've had to rely on Andrew M. to land my own changes to
kgdb and in the v4.14 cycle you'll find my Acked-by on b8347c219649
("x86/debug: Handle warnings before the notifier chain, to fix KGDB
crash"). That I was sharing surrogate acks convinced me we need a
change here and I've offered Jason help via private e-mail without
reply.
So, I really would prefer it it if this patch listed me as a
co-maintainer or, failing that, as least had Jason's blessing...
but
it doesn't. I certainly suggest this patch takes a long time in
review, and if it doesn't attract Jason's attention then I can only
reiterate what is says in the commit log: Thanks Jason!
MAINTAINERS | 3 +--
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
It looks like Jason has been inactive in all aspects of upstream
maintainership and as a contributor for well over a year now.
I have not been working directly on upstream kernel contributions for
quite some time. It doesn't mean I haven't been involved with kernel
development. Patches that I have reviewed or suggested to other
developers generally don't bare my name. I wouldn't mind trying to take
a slightly more gradual passing of the baton and add Daniel as
co-maintainer for a while before I retire from kernel work and merge
myself away in the coming years. :-)
Great to hear from you again! I shall consider this patch nacked or the
time being ;-)... and if you are happy with help from me I shall leave
it to you to propose an update to MAINTAINERS.
I have a series of 50+ patches for kgdb/kdb/usb which have never been
published. I am not saying that we actually need any of those patches,
but it would be nice to let the community decide, and we can see if
there is anything worth merging into the next cycle or future work with
other maintainers. My kernel.org tree stopped working a long time ago,
probably from inactivity. I'll see if that can get restored in the next
few days, or I'll use my github tree and send the unpublished work to
the mailing list as an RFC.
I, for one, would be interested to see these.
Dropped LKML. I did figure out why I wasn't getting all Daniel's mails. The
kgdb list had a bad filter and was just collecting mail and not sending it. I
never saw the mail Daniel referenced from October and November until today.
Oopps...
Thanks again to Daniel for shepherding the fixes along through the other
maintainers trees.
Daniel you are now a co-owner to the kgdb list so you'll get messages about
rejections of posts and such. If other folks on the list get some old mails
from the last few months today, it is because I cleared the blocked mail queue
on Source Forge where the list is hosted.
Jason.
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