From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751564AbbJNEsp (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Oct 2015 00:48:45 -0400 Received: from mail-pa0-f48.google.com ([209.85.220.48]:36243 "EHLO mail-pa0-f48.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750830AbbJNEso (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Oct 2015 00:48:44 -0400 Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2015 10:18:29 +0530 From: Sudip Mukherjee To: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Joe Perches , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: fix entry of char/misc Message-ID: <20151014044829.GA3844@sudip-pc> References: <1444730681-5778-1-git-send-email-sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com> <1444747685.9184.21.camel@perches.com> <20151013171924.GB6720@sudip-pc> <20151013173947.GA8886@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20151013173947.GA8886@kroah.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 10:39:47AM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 10:49:24PM +0530, Sudip Mukherjee wrote: > > 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? > > Kind of, I'm here to pick up the portions of this tree that do not have > a maintainer already (random.c is one example.) Then what about the ones that has a maintainer? I had specifically sgi-gru in mind when I made this patch. I hope you remember the issue that I pointed out when i sent some patches for that. regards sudip