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Maintainership Updates
Alessandro Rubini has abandoned maintainership of the "Mouse and misc devices (general)" code, which actually hasn't existed for a long time. The generic mouse interface has been part of the input subsystem maintained by Dmitry Torokhov, and miscellaneous drivers are handled individually. Both the maintainer and the project itself were out of date in the MAINTAINERS file, and Jiri Kosina posted a patch to remove it.
Rodolfo Giometti has added an entry to the MAINTAINERS file, listing himself as the official PPS (pulse per second) maintainer. PPS provides an API for precise time measurements that can be used to synchronize clocks on disparate computers. Although several implementations are available for PPS in Linux, this one is Rodolfo's. Its benefits are that it makes it easy to add and manage new sources of timing information into a pool, with a consistent interface for each source.
Kristoffer Ericson created a MAINTAINERS entry for the Epson S1D13XXXFB driver and listed himself as the official maintainer, "… since I have 2 platforms currently using it," he said. This controller is used for various LCD screens, typically embedded as display panels in other devices such as printers, car dashboards, and whatnot.
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