From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751274AbdH0QTY (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Aug 2017 12:19:24 -0400 Received: from smtprelay0145.hostedemail.com ([216.40.44.145]:52000 "EHLO smtprelay.hostedemail.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751182AbdH0QTW (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Aug 2017 12:19:22 -0400 X-Session-Marker: 6A6F6540706572636865732E636F6D X-Spam-Summary: 2,0,0,,d41d8cd98f00b204,joe@perches.com,:::::::::::,RULES_HIT:41:355:379:541:599:800:960:973:982:988:989:1260:1277:1311:1313:1314:1345:1359:1373:1437:1515:1516:1518:1534:1541:1593:1594:1711:1730:1747:1777:1792:2393:2553:2559:2562:2828:2895:3138:3139:3140:3141:3142:3352:3622:3865:3867:3868:3870:3872:3873:3874:4250:4321:5007:6119:7903:9010:10004:10400:10848:11232:11658:11783:11914:12043:12296:12740:12895:13019:13069:13311:13357:13439:13891:13894:14181:14659:14721:14777:21080:21433:21451:21627:30012:30022:30054:30060:30090:30091,0,RBL:none,CacheIP:none,Bayesian:0.5,0.5,0.5,Netcheck:none,DomainCache:0,MSF:not bulk,SPF:,MSBL:0,DNSBL:none,Custom_rules:0:0:0,LFtime:1,LUA_SUMMARY:none X-HE-Tag: mask60_6eae31a886753 X-Filterd-Recvd-Size: 2064 Message-ID: <1503850759.12569.50.camel@perches.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] irda: move it to drivers/staging so we can delete it From: Joe Perches To: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: davem@davemloft.net, samuel@sortiz.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2017 09:19:19 -0700 In-Reply-To: <20170827161307.GA3528@kroah.com> References: <20170827150334.32495-1-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> <1503848143.12569.48.camel@perches.com> <20170827161307.GA3528@kroah.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.22.6-1ubuntu1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 2017-08-27 at 18:13 +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Sun, Aug 27, 2017 at 08:35:43AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > > On Sun, 2017-08-27 at 17:03 +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > > The IRDA code has long been obsolete and broken. So, to keep people > > > from trying to use it, and to prevent people from having to maintain it, > > > let's move it to drivers/staging/ so that we can delete it entirely from > > > the kernel in a few releases. > > > > > > MAINTAINERS should be updated as well. > > > > It'd probably be nice to try to get an email to > > the irda mailing list too if it still works. > > As get_maintainer.pl didn't show it, odds are it doesn't... get_maintainer doesn't show it because it's subscriber-only. If you want get_maintainer to show it, add -s $ ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl  -s -f net/irda/ Samuel Ortiz (maintainer:IRDA SUBSYSTEM) "David S. Miller" (maintainer:NETWORKING [GENERAL]) irda-users@lists.sourceforge.net (subscriber list:IRDA SUBSYSTEM) netdev@vger.kernel.org (open list:IRDA SUBSYSTEM) linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (open list) From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Joe Perches Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] irda: move it to drivers/staging so we can delete it Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2017 09:19:19 -0700 Message-ID: <1503850759.12569.50.camel@perches.com> References: <20170827150334.32495-1-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> <1503848143.12569.48.camel@perches.com> <20170827161307.GA3528@kroah.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, samuel@sortiz.org, davem@davemloft.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: Greg Kroah-Hartman Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20170827161307.GA3528@kroah.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: driverdev-devel-bounces@linuxdriverproject.org Sender: "devel" List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Sun, 2017-08-27 at 18:13 +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Sun, Aug 27, 2017 at 08:35:43AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > > On Sun, 2017-08-27 at 17:03 +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > > The IRDA code has long been obsolete and broken. So, to keep people > > > from trying to use it, and to prevent people from having to maintain = it, > > > let's move it to drivers/staging/ so that we can delete it entirely f= rom > > > the kernel in a few releases. > > = > > = > > MAINTAINERS should be updated as well. > > = > > It'd probably be nice to try to get an email to > > the irda mailing list too if it still works. > = > As get_maintainer.pl didn't show it, odds are it doesn't... get_maintainer doesn't show it because it's subscriber-only. If you want get_maintainer to show it, add -s $ ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl=A0=A0-s -f net/irda/ Samuel Ortiz (maintainer:IRDA SUBSYSTEM) "David S. Miller" (maintainer:NETWORKING [GENERAL]) irda-users@lists.sourceforge.net (subscriber list:IRDA SUBSYSTEM) netdev@vger.kernel.org (open list:IRDA SUBSYSTEM) linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (open list)