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    SubjectRe: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Remove Matt Mackall as his identity is obsolete
    Hi Tim,

    On Mon, Oct 18, 2021 at 03:17:22PM -0600, Tim Bird wrote:
    > On Mon, Sep 20, 2021 at 3:52 AM Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
    > >
    > > The mails I sent to Matt on September 14 and 20 both were refused by the
    > > MTA responsible for selenic.com (i.e. waste.org) with:
    > >
    > >         554 5.7.1 <mpm@selenic.com>: Recipient address rejected: This identity is obsolete
    > >
    > > Also the most recent commit that involved him (ignoring "Cc: Matt
    > > Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>" footers) is commit 330e0a01d54c (MAINTAINERS:
    > > Theodore Ts'o is taking over the random driver) where he was removed
    > > from the entry for random number drivers in 2012.
    > >
    > > So drop him completely from the list of maintainers.
    > >
    > > Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
    > > ---
    > >  MAINTAINERS | 2 --
    > >  1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
    > >
    > > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
    > > index d7b4f32875a9..805630c67a1f 100644
    > > --- a/MAINTAINERS
    > > +++ b/MAINTAINERS
    > > @@ -6812,7 +6812,6 @@ F:        drivers/media/usb/em28xx/
    > >
    > >  EMBEDDED LINUX
    > >  M:     Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
    > > -M:     Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
    > >  M:     David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
    > >  L:     linux-embedded@vger.kernel.org
    > >  S:     Maintained
    > > @@ -8157,7 +8156,6 @@ F:        include/trace/events/hwmon*.h
    > >  K:     (devm_)?hwmon_device_(un)?register(|_with_groups|_with_info)
    >
    >
    > I think an overhaul of the "EMBEDDED LINUX" MAINTAINERS entry
    > is long-overdue.
    >
    > No offense to any of the 3 persons listed, but I think the kernel developer
    > community would be better served by a group of individuals with a more
    > current active role in embedded linux.  I have a few names I'll toss out for
    > candidates: Matt Porter, Kevin Hilman, Thomas Gleixner,  Thomas
    > Petazonni, Laurent Pinchart, and Uwe Kleine-König (and maybe even
    > myself).
    >
    > This entry in the MAINTAINERS file is somewhat special, in that it
    > covers a "field of endeavor" rather than a specific set of files or
    > directories.
    >
    > Thoughts?

    Thank you for volunteering me :-)

    I was indeed wondering about this particular MAINTAINERS entry. As it
    doesn't cover any particular set of files, directories, drivers,
    subsystems or architectures, what does being listed here endeavour ?

    > ... Volunteers?
    >
    > >  HARDWARE RANDOM NUMBER GENERATOR CORE
    > > -M:     Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
    > >  M:     Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
    > >  L:     linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org
    > >  S:     Odd fixes

    --
    Regards,

    Laurent Pinchart

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