Re: Submissions for 2.4.19-pre [RivaFB Blanking Fix (Author Unknown)]

Marcelo Tosatti (marcelo@conectiva.com.br)
Thu, 28 Feb 2002 15:11:50 -0300 (BRT)


On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Jeff Garzik wrote:

> Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> > On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > > Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> > > > Please send that to the RivaFB maintainer.
>
> > > to be honest there really isn't one.....
>
> > Yes there is: Ani Joshi <ajoshi@shell.unixbox.com>.
>
> No, there isn't. Ani volunteered for the position, then has been
> ignoring patches sent to him for a year or more. I used to be rivafb
> maintainer (look at who wrote riva/fbdev.c...), then didn't have time.
> When I asked around for a new maintainer, he claimed to take up the
> position, but no patches have been forthcoming...
>
> Ferenc Bakonyi did a good bit of work, and IMO would be a good candidate
> for maintainership, if he's still around.

I've been receing rivafb patches from him lately. For example, pre2 has a
rivafb update.

In practice, from my point of view, he is maintaining the driver.

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