2010/6/2 Mark Brown broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com:
On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 02:35:18PM +0200, Daniel Gl?ckner wrote:
I don't think it is necessary to add an entry to MAINTAINERS. My name and address listed at the top of the file should be enough. It's not like I'm still working on it, but if needed I can take the device from the shelf to perform some tests, should anyone make more serious changes to the driver.
MAINTAINERS is used by automatic tools like get_maintainer to find who to CC so entries there are still useful - original authorship is often not a good indicator that someone is willing to take responsibility for the code. From the sounds of it though it was for a particular project and you've moved on from it so you're not particularly concerned about now so it's not worth it anyway?
Oh, it just be my worry. If some codes were no longer useful or valuable, what should we do for them? delete them or keep them be there yet?
If I my patch to fix a worthless codes, everything I do will be nothing.