On Tue, 24 May 2016, Joe Perches wrote:

quoted

The submitted patches are not being reacted upon, and Jens is only picking 
up stable fixes on an rather ad-hoc basis.

Link: lkml.kernel.org/r/574462C5.40307@kernel.dk
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <redacted>
---
 MAINTAINERS | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 5f83015..c9906d6 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS

@@ -2288,7 +2288,7 @@ BCACHE (BLOCK LAYER CACHE)

 M:     Kent Overstreet [off-list ref]
 L:     linux-bcache@vger.kernel.org
 W:     http://bcache.evilpiepirate.org
-S:     Maintained
+S:     Orphan
 F:     drivers/md/bcache/

Sections marked as Orphan generally
don't also have a named maintainer.

Should Kent still be listed here?

Thanks for the remark. I'd leave this up to Jens, as apparently at the end 
of the day he's the one relaying stability bugfixes upstream; so it might 
actually make sense to have him listed there eventually (while keeping the 
Orphan status).

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs