From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932626AbbJMRTa (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Oct 2015 13:19:30 -0400 Received: from mail-pa0-f46.google.com ([209.85.220.46]:33560 "EHLO mail-pa0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932415AbbJMRT3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Oct 2015 13:19:29 -0400 Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 22:49:24 +0530 From: Sudip Mukherjee To: Joe Perches Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: fix entry of char/misc Message-ID: <20151013171924.GB6720@sudip-pc> References: <1444730681-5778-1-git-send-email-sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com> <1444747685.9184.21.camel@perches.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1444747685.9184.21.camel@perches.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 07:48:05AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > On Tue, 2015-10-13 at 15:34 +0530, Sudip Mukherjee wrote: > > Greg and Arnd are supporter of char and misc drivers. While using > > getmaintainer.pl on any patch or any file in these directories their > > names were never displayed. > [] > > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS > [] > > M: Greg Kroah-Hartman > > T: git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc.git > > S: Supported > > -F: drivers/char/* > > -F: drivers/misc/* > > +F: drivers/char/ > > +F: drivers/misc/ > > F: include/linux/miscdevice.h > > Do Greg and Arnd really want to be supporting all > subsystems below drivers/char like agp and xillybus? I don't know that. Maybe Greg and Arnd can say. But wasn't that the intention when char/* and misc/* was mentioned here? regards sudip