From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751286AbdH0Qxc (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Aug 2017 12:53:32 -0400 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:53122 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751206AbdH0Qxb (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Aug 2017 12:53:31 -0400 Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2017 18:53:37 +0200 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: Joe Perches Cc: davem@davemloft.net, samuel@sortiz.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] irda: move it to drivers/staging so we can delete it Message-ID: <20170827165337.GA5769@kroah.com> References: <20170827150334.32495-1-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> <1503848143.12569.48.camel@perches.com> <20170827161307.GA3528@kroah.com> <1503850759.12569.50.camel@perches.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <1503850759.12569.50.camel@perches.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.8.3 (2017-05-23) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Aug 27, 2017 at 09:19:19AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > 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) Sorry, am not going to subscribe to a random list just to send patches that delete the subsystem :) netdev@ should be all that is needed here anyway... thanks, greg k-h From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] irda: move it to drivers/staging so we can delete it Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2017 18:53:37 +0200 Message-ID: <20170827165337.GA5769@kroah.com> References: <20170827150334.32495-1-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> <1503848143.12569.48.camel@perches.com> <20170827161307.GA3528@kroah.com> <1503850759.12569.50.camel@perches.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: Joe Perches Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1503850759.12569.50.camel@perches.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, Aug 27, 2017 at 09:19:19AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > 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 maintai= n 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=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) Sorry, am not going to subscribe to a random list just to send patches that delete the subsystem :) netdev@ should be all that is needed here anyway... thanks, greg k-h