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[v2,1/3] MAINTAINERS: mark sections from Ralf Baechle orphan

Message ID 20210625110419.24503-2-lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com (mailing list archive)
State Rejected
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Series Remove dead linux-mips.org references | expand

Commit Message

Lukas Bulwahn June 25, 2021, 11:04 a.m. UTC
The domain lookup for linux-mips.org fails for quite some time now. Hence,
webpages, the patchwork instance and Ralf Baechle's email there is not
reachable anymore.

Ralf Baechle has not been active since February 2018; so, set all
MAINTAINERS sections with Ralf as sole maintainer to Orphan, and give
others a chance to claim maintainership if these sections are still of
interest.

Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
---
 MAINTAINERS | 15 +++++----------
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

Comments

Lukas Bulwahn July 17, 2021, 7:03 a.m. UTC | #1
On Fri, Jun 25, 2021 at 1:04 PM Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The domain lookup for linux-mips.org fails for quite some time now. Hence,
> webpages, the patchwork instance and Ralf Baechle's email there is not
> reachable anymore.
>

There has not been any specific comment on marking kernel parts solely
"maintained" by Ralf Baechle as Orphan.

So, given the feedback on this overall patch set from Maciej and Kurt:
- the domain lookup for linux-mips.org does resolve again.
- the patchwork instance moved.
- Ralf Baechle's email now does at least forward somewhere.

However, it still holds that:

Ralf Baechle has not been active since February 2018; so, set all
MAINTAINERS sections with Ralf as sole maintainer to Orphan, and give
others a chance to claim maintainership if these sections are still of
interest.

I suggest that independent of the other patches in this patch set, I
rework the commit message of this patch here (basically dropping the
first sentence) and send out a final patch for this subject that
Thomas can then pick.

Any comments or rejections to that suggestion?

Lukas

> Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
> ---
>  MAINTAINERS | 15 +++++----------
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index 3d657e1fe359..eb9110c756f7 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -3094,9 +3094,8 @@ F:        Documentation/devicetree/bindings/iio/adc/avia-hx711.yaml
>  F:     drivers/iio/adc/hx711.c
>
>  AX.25 NETWORK LAYER
> -M:     Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
>  L:     linux-hams@vger.kernel.org
> -S:     Maintained
> +S:     Orphan
>  W:     http://www.linux-ax25.org/
>  F:     include/net/ax25.h
>  F:     include/uapi/linux/ax25.h
> @@ -6575,10 +6574,9 @@ S:       Maintained
>  F:     drivers/edac/highbank*
>
>  EDAC-CAVIUM OCTEON
> -M:     Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
>  L:     linux-edac@vger.kernel.org
>  L:     linux-mips@vger.kernel.org
> -S:     Supported
> +S:     Orphan
>  F:     drivers/edac/octeon_edac*
>
>  EDAC-CAVIUM THUNDERX
> @@ -9654,9 +9652,8 @@ F:        Documentation/devicetree/bindings/iio/gyroscope/invensense,mpu3050.yaml
>  F:     drivers/iio/gyro/mpu3050*
>
>  IOC3 ETHERNET DRIVER
> -M:     Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
>  L:     linux-mips@vger.kernel.org
> -S:     Maintained
> +S:     Orphan
>  F:     drivers/net/ethernet/sgi/ioc3-eth.c
>
>  IOMAP FILESYSTEM LIBRARY
> @@ -12832,9 +12829,8 @@ F:      net/bridge/br_netfilter*.c
>  F:     net/netfilter/
>
>  NETROM NETWORK LAYER
> -M:     Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
>  L:     linux-hams@vger.kernel.org
> -S:     Maintained
> +S:     Orphan
>  W:     http://www.linux-ax25.org/
>  F:     include/net/netrom.h
>  F:     include/uapi/linux/netrom.h
> @@ -16007,9 +16003,8 @@ F:      include/linux/mfd/rohm-generic.h
>  F:     include/linux/mfd/rohm-shared.h
>
>  ROSE NETWORK LAYER
> -M:     Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
>  L:     linux-hams@vger.kernel.org
> -S:     Maintained
> +S:     Orphan
>  W:     http://www.linux-ax25.org/
>  F:     include/net/rose.h
>  F:     include/uapi/linux/rose.h
> --
> 2.17.1
>
Ralf Baechle July 17, 2021, 9:13 a.m. UTC | #2
On Sat, Jul 17, 2021 at 09:03:05AM +0200, Lukas Bulwahn wrote:

> So, given the feedback on this overall patch set from Maciej and Kurt:
> - the domain lookup for linux-mips.org does resolve again.
> - the patchwork instance moved.
> - Ralf Baechle's email now does at least forward somewhere.

Sorry, the site suffered a complete collapse after a hardware failure
earlier this year - and I couldn't even get the failed drive replaced at
the hoster as I didn't have the privilege of opening a ticket; that was
only possible to the owner of the master account, a former MIPS employee
who for health reasons no longer is with the company.  The parent company
of MIPS Wavecomp going through bankrupcy proceedings didn't help resolving
the situation either.

Anyway, there's progress on that front and I hope to get replacement
hardware within the next week or so.

The failed drive of the lmo server hardware changed its behavioud allowing
me to reboot the system again on July 1st.  I had given up on the old
hardware in frustration so Kurt deserves the credits for getting me to try
again.
No data was lost in the crash itself.  I'm now working on fixing all the
failed subsystems, primarily due to a major OS upgrade by several releases,
some old to-do list items and changes in the environment that affect the
system.  The time required to do so is enormous; I've done virtually
nothing else since 1st of July.

I've put an writeup about the system status to
https://www.linux-mips.org/wiki/System_Recovery_Status which I'm
keeping updated as work progresses.

As for the MAINTAINERS for the ham radio protocols - AX.25 use
is going down for many years and so is NET\ROM.  ROSE has always
been a very rare protocol but all three stacks still have active
users.  With that said, I doubt somebody to do active development
and maintenace will be found.  So maybe leave my name in but
lower to "Odd Fixes" which has been the reality for years even
before I took over and imho is how it should be continued.

At this point my immediate priorities are the full restoration of
the lmo server and after that linux-ax25.org will need TLC and I want
those to be completed before diving into code again.

  Ralf
Joshua Kinard July 17, 2021, 8:59 p.m. UTC | #3
On 7/17/2021 03:03, Lukas Bulwahn wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 25, 2021 at 1:04 PM Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> The domain lookup for linux-mips.org fails for quite some time now. Hence,
>> webpages, the patchwork instance and Ralf Baechle's email there is not
>> reachable anymore.
>>
> 
> There has not been any specific comment on marking kernel parts solely
> "maintained" by Ralf Baechle as Orphan.
> 
> So, given the feedback on this overall patch set from Maciej and Kurt:
> - the domain lookup for linux-mips.org does resolve again.
> - the patchwork instance moved.
> - Ralf Baechle's email now does at least forward somewhere.
> 
> However, it still holds that:
> 
> Ralf Baechle has not been active since February 2018; so, set all
> MAINTAINERS sections with Ralf as sole maintainer to Orphan, and give
> others a chance to claim maintainership if these sections are still of
> interest.
> 
> I suggest that independent of the other patches in this patch set, I
> rework the commit message of this patch here (basically dropping the
> first sentence) and send out a final patch for this subject that
> Thomas can then pick.
> 
> Any comments or rejections to that suggestion?
> 
> Lukas


>> @@ -9654,9 +9652,8 @@ F:        Documentation/devicetree/bindings/iio/gyroscope/invensense,mpu3050.yaml
>>  F:     drivers/iio/gyro/mpu3050*
>>
>>  IOC3 ETHERNET DRIVER
>> -M:     Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
>>  L:     linux-mips@vger.kernel.org
>> -S:     Maintained
>> +S:     Orphan
>>  F:     drivers/net/ethernet/sgi/ioc3-eth.c

Thomas virtually re-wrote this driver, so it is probably more appropriate to
leave it as maintained, but mark him as the maintainer.
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diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 3d657e1fe359..eb9110c756f7 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -3094,9 +3094,8 @@  F:	Documentation/devicetree/bindings/iio/adc/avia-hx711.yaml
 F:	drivers/iio/adc/hx711.c
 
 AX.25 NETWORK LAYER
-M:	Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
 L:	linux-hams@vger.kernel.org
-S:	Maintained
+S:	Orphan
 W:	http://www.linux-ax25.org/
 F:	include/net/ax25.h
 F:	include/uapi/linux/ax25.h
@@ -6575,10 +6574,9 @@  S:	Maintained
 F:	drivers/edac/highbank*
 
 EDAC-CAVIUM OCTEON
-M:	Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
 L:	linux-edac@vger.kernel.org
 L:	linux-mips@vger.kernel.org
-S:	Supported
+S:	Orphan
 F:	drivers/edac/octeon_edac*
 
 EDAC-CAVIUM THUNDERX
@@ -9654,9 +9652,8 @@  F:	Documentation/devicetree/bindings/iio/gyroscope/invensense,mpu3050.yaml
 F:	drivers/iio/gyro/mpu3050*
 
 IOC3 ETHERNET DRIVER
-M:	Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
 L:	linux-mips@vger.kernel.org
-S:	Maintained
+S:	Orphan
 F:	drivers/net/ethernet/sgi/ioc3-eth.c
 
 IOMAP FILESYSTEM LIBRARY
@@ -12832,9 +12829,8 @@  F:	net/bridge/br_netfilter*.c
 F:	net/netfilter/
 
 NETROM NETWORK LAYER
-M:	Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
 L:	linux-hams@vger.kernel.org
-S:	Maintained
+S:	Orphan
 W:	http://www.linux-ax25.org/
 F:	include/net/netrom.h
 F:	include/uapi/linux/netrom.h
@@ -16007,9 +16003,8 @@  F:	include/linux/mfd/rohm-generic.h
 F:	include/linux/mfd/rohm-shared.h
 
 ROSE NETWORK LAYER
-M:	Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
 L:	linux-hams@vger.kernel.org
-S:	Maintained
+S:	Orphan
 W:	http://www.linux-ax25.org/
 F:	include/net/rose.h
 F:	include/uapi/linux/rose.h