I'm a Russian troll. So remove myself from the maintainers list.

Signed-off-by: Aleksandr Mezin <mezin.alexander@gmail.com>
---
Never did a good job as a driver maintainer anyway.

Maybe Jonas Malaco or Aleksa Savic will be interested in picking up
the driver.

Apologies for any inconvenience.

 MAINTAINERS | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index e9659a5a7fb3..15b804952c67 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -16679,9 +16679,8 @@ F:	Documentation/hwmon/nzxt-kraken3.rst
 F:	drivers/hwmon/nzxt-kraken3.c
 
 NZXT-SMART2 HARDWARE MONITORING DRIVER
-M:	Aleksandr Mezin <mezin.alexander@gmail.com>
 L:	linux-hwmon@vger.kernel.org
-S:	Maintained
+S:	Orphan
 F:	Documentation/hwmon/nzxt-smart2.rst
 F:	drivers/hwmon/nzxt-smart2.c
 
-- 
2.47.0

On 23.10.24 22:12, Aleksandr Mezin wrote:
> I'm a Russian troll. So remove myself from the maintainers list.
Good take. But I guess you should also remove the *whole* block, as this
seems to be how things are handled now :p


By the way, interesting to see my whole business domain is hard-blocked
on kernel.org mail system (I'm a maintainer, too, btw).

I'm not even Russian (I've got family relations to Ukraine instead),
just somebody speaking out against this cancel culture.

Meanwhile, Linux turned from the most famous FOSS project into the most
famous POSS. (politware). And speaking out against censorship gets you
censored.


--mtx

On 10/23/24 13:12, Aleksandr Mezin wrote:
> I'm a Russian troll. So remove myself from the maintainers list.
> 

I will not accept political statements into the hwmon subsystem.
Please chose a different description.

> Signed-off-by: Aleksandr Mezin <mezin.alexander@gmail.com>

There are no "orphaned" hwmon drivers. Those automatically fall back
to the hwmon subsystem maintainers. Please remove the entry entirely.

Thanks,
Guenter

On Thu, Oct 24, 2024 at 1:03 AM Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> wrote:

> I will not accept political statements into the hwmon subsystem.
> Please chose a different description.

Could you remove me correctly with a patch description that you like,
please? I can't make up anything good-looking and non-political. And
I'm not going to submit any patches anymore. Sorry.

Am 24.10.24 um 00:03 schrieb Guenter Roeck:

> On 10/23/24 13:12, Aleksandr Mezin wrote:
>> I'm a Russian troll. So remove myself from the maintainers list.
>>
>
I am assuming that you are not a Russian troll and are instead offended by
Linus comment regarding the maintainer de-listing.

Lets just say that i too do not like it if someone calls people "Russian trolls"
without any proofs. And i too agree that a more open approach regarding such
decisions is necessary.

It would be a shame if we loose maintainers because of this. Is there something
i can do to change your decision?

Thanks,
Armin Wolf

> I will not accept political statements into the hwmon subsystem.
> Please chose a different description.
>
>> Signed-off-by: Aleksandr Mezin <mezin.alexander@gmail.com>
>
> There are no "orphaned" hwmon drivers. Those automatically fall back
> to the hwmon subsystem maintainers. Please remove the entry entirely.
>
> Thanks,
> Guenter
>
>

On Thu, Oct 24, 2024 at 1:24 AM Armin Wolf <W_Armin@gmx.de> wrote:
> I am assuming that you are not a Russian troll and are instead offended by
> Linus comment regarding the maintainer de-listing.

I'm Russian. Whether I'm a troll or not - depends on your perception,
I guess. After reading recent emails on the topic, I decided I don't
want to contribute anymore.

> It would be a shame if we loose maintainers because of this. Is there something
> i can do to change your decision?

I haven't been that active, it was just a hobby, sending a small patch
from time to time. I think you'll not lose much. After all, maybe I
should have been removed anyway - but was overlooked because my e-mail
isn't on a ".ru" domain.