From: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] MAINTAINERS: maintain parport
Date: Thu, 21 May 2015 07:51:18 +0200
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On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 05:46:44PM +0200, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 5:27 PM, Sudip Mukherjee
> <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Lets give the parport subsystem a proper name and start
> > maintaining the files.
> 
> Excuse me, but usually someone takes over the maintainer role after
> proving that he
> cares for a sub system for a certain period of time.
> Or did I miss something?

Sudip has been volunteering for fixing this code which is marked
as "orphan". So whatever his experience and care in this area,
it will be better for the driver to have a maintainer than none.

Good luck Sudip, as drivers which have become orphans are probably
the ones that deserve the least love :-)

Willy