On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 09:50:50AM -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote: > On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 09:05:36AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 6:38 AM, Stafford Horne <sho...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > - This is my first pull request as the new OpenRISC architecture > > > maintainer. I hope I have things in order. > > > > Looks ok, but I note that I don't seem to find an email talking about > > the maintainership change. > > > > In general, I really prefer seeing hand-off. I guess in this case > > there wasn't all that much hand-off to be done, but I think the last > > few changes came from pulling from Guenter.. > > > Hi Linus, > > sorry for not keeping you in the loop. No bad intentions, I just know that > you are busy. I knew about this change, and I had offered to send the pull > request. Stafford wanted to do it himself, so I figured I'd only (need to) > get involved if needed. > > I had a look through the changes, ran a diff against mainline, and tested the > resulting code in qemu. I did this both with the previous version and with the > version rebased to v4.9. I even checked that Stafford now has his key signed. > It all looks ok to me. Please consider this a Tested-by: and Reviewed-by: > from me for the entire series. > > Now all we have left to do is to ask Stafford not to rebase to the latest > kernel before sending his pull requests...
Thanks Guenter, I see Linus did do the merge already, but just for completion here is a bit more about the maintainer handoff. I sent this in some of my earlier pull requests, I should have included it to Linus. Mail threads from Jonas (previous maintainer) https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/5/13/469 - mail from Jonas mentioning he is no longer able to maintain https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/6/11/426 - mail from Jonas mentioning stefan is to be the new maintainer Ideally Stefan Kristiansson would have become the maintainer but he does not seem to have much time recently. I am in talks with Stefan regularly via the #openrisc freenode irc room. Also, Stefan and I have met last summer and did a pgp key signing. Either way, all is set now. I'll be working on the next batch of patches now. Thank you, -Stafford
