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>
> ---
>
> 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 strongly support the move to make Daniel KGDB Maintainer:
Acked-by: Lee Jones <lee.jo...@linaro.org>
(NB: If this patch does not receive any opposition by the end of this
cycle, it would be my pleasure to take it through one of my trees.)
--
Lee Jones
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