* linux-next: Trees and MAINTAINERS of random drivers?
@ 2012-07-18 11:09 Sedat Dilek
2012-07-18 11:15 ` David Woodhouse
2012-07-18 18:17 ` Theodore Ts'o
0 siblings, 2 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Sedat Dilek @ 2012-07-18 11:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Theodore Ts'o, David Woodhouse; +Cc: linux-next, LKML, Matt Mackall
Hi,
while digging into an issue with the random driver [0] yesterday, I
checked today the "Next/Trees" and random driver related informations
in "MAINTAINERS" files.
...and have some questions.
David's random tree is listed in linux-next [1]:
26 dwmw2 git
git://git.infradead.org/users/dwmw2/random-2.6.git#master
But [2] shows me that there were no activities in this tree for about 3 years.
Is that still valid and/or should that tree be dropped?
[ Sorry, for nitpicking but suffix "-2.6" should simply die in GIT
repo and branch names after introduction of upstream's linux.git. ]
[3] lists Ted as new random driver maintainer, but in [4] I found Matt
as maintainer:
5656 RANDOM NUMBER DRIVER
5657 M: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
5658 S: Maintained
5659 F: drivers/char/random.c
I do not think that this is still correct and furthermore in Ted's
random.git#dev tree I see commits changing "drivers/char/random.c"
file.
So, that above block should IMHO be dropped and "F:
drivers/char/random.c" added to [6]?
Just noticed while looking into linux-next and the recent random
revival from Ted.
Thanks to old and new random maintainers for their great work!
Kind Regards,
- Sedat -
[0] http://marc.info/?l=linux-next&m=134252508224850&w=2
[1] http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git;a=blob;f=Next/Trees;hb=HEAD#l26
[2] http://git.infradead.org/users/dwmw2/random-2.6.git
[3] http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git;a=commitdiff;h=ec1b70506a9ec3be8191ddb2f4de9ac066e6a431
[4] http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git;a=blob;f=MAINTAINERS;hb=HEAD#l5656
[5] http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/tytso/random.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/dev
[6] http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git;a=blob;f=MAINTAINERS;hb=HEAD#l3170
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* Re: linux-next: Trees and MAINTAINERS of random drivers?
2012-07-18 11:09 linux-next: Trees and MAINTAINERS of random drivers? Sedat Dilek
@ 2012-07-18 11:15 ` David Woodhouse
2012-07-18 11:28 ` Sedat Dilek
2012-07-18 18:17 ` Theodore Ts'o
1 sibling, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: David Woodhouse @ 2012-07-18 11:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: sedat.dilek; +Cc: Theodore Ts'o, linux-next, LKML, Matt Mackall
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On Wed, 2012-07-18 at 13:09 +0200, Sedat Dilek wrote:
> 26 dwmw2 git
> git://git.infradead.org/users/dwmw2/random-2.6.git#master
I'm misusing the word 'random' to mean 'miscellaneous' there; it's not
for things related to entropy.
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dwmw2
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* Re: linux-next: Trees and MAINTAINERS of random drivers?
2012-07-18 11:15 ` David Woodhouse
@ 2012-07-18 11:28 ` Sedat Dilek
0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Sedat Dilek @ 2012-07-18 11:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: David Woodhouse; +Cc: Theodore Ts'o, linux-next, LKML, Matt Mackall
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 1:15 PM, David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-07-18 at 13:09 +0200, Sedat Dilek wrote:
>> 26 dwmw2 git
>> git://git.infradead.org/users/dwmw2/random-2.6.git#master
>
> I'm misusing the word 'random' to mean 'miscellaneous' there; it's not
> for things related to entropy.
>
Hehe, that's a nice one and reminds of [1] (German).
A customer asking a hotline (focused on professional Linux support)
for "apache" support and at the end the guy was talking about "Apache
Air Assault" game.
...rename the branch to "misc"?
[ "misc" is IMHO a placeholder when someone finds no better meaningful
name, BTW I didn't look into your GIT tree. ]
- Sedat -
[1] http://www.heinlein-support.de/blog/blog/wenn-unser-support-an-seine-grenzen-stost/
> --
> dwmw2
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* Re: linux-next: Trees and MAINTAINERS of random drivers?
2012-07-18 11:09 linux-next: Trees and MAINTAINERS of random drivers? Sedat Dilek
2012-07-18 11:15 ` David Woodhouse
@ 2012-07-18 18:17 ` Theodore Ts'o
1 sibling, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Theodore Ts'o @ 2012-07-18 18:17 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Sedat Dilek; +Cc: David Woodhouse, linux-next, LKML, Matt Mackall
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 01:09:04PM +0200, Sedat Dilek wrote:
> [3] lists Ted as new random driver maintainer, but in [4] I found Matt
> as maintainer:
>
> 5656 RANDOM NUMBER DRIVER
> 5657 M: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
> 5658 S: Maintained
> 5659 F: drivers/char/random.c
>
> I do not think that this is still correct and furthermore in Ted's
> random.git#dev tree I see commits changing "drivers/char/random.c"
> file.
> So, that above block should IMHO be dropped and "F:
> drivers/char/random.c" added to [6]?
Oh, I see, I screwed up my update to the MAINTAINERS file and updated
the wrong block. I'll fix it....
- Ted
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