Re: PATCH for Broken PCI Multi-IO in 2.4.3 (serial+parport)

[Gunther Mayer]

Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 
> Gunther Mayer wrote:
> > Hardware has always needed quirks (linux-2.4.3 has about 60 occurences
> > of the word "quirks", not to mention workaround, blacklist and other synonyms)!
> >
> > Please apply this little patch instead of wasting time by finger-pointing
> > and arguing.
> >
> > Martin, comments?
> 
> Is Martin still alive?  He hasn't been active in PCI development well
> over six months, maybe a year now.  Ivan (alpha hacker) appeared on the
> scene to fix serious PCI bridge bugs, DaveM has added some PCI DMA
> stuff, and I've added a couple driver-related things.  I haven't seen
> code from Martin in a long long time, and only a comment or two in
> recent memory.

See linux/MAINTAINERS for "PCI Subsystem", the attribute is even called:
 "Supported:      Someone is actually paid to look after this".