From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:51482 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752509AbZHKOtn (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Aug 2009 10:49:43 -0400 Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 07:49:53 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20090811.074953.130816092.davem@davemloft.net> To: jkosina@suse.cz Cc: joe@perches.com, linville@tuxdriver.com, julia@diku.dk, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Add networking wireless drivers section From: David Miller In-Reply-To: References: <20090728.113353.08715297.davem@davemloft.net> <1248806896.18284.14.camel@Joe-Laptop.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Jiri Kosina Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 15:55:46 +0200 (CEST) > On Tue, 28 Jul 2009, Joe Perches wrote: > >> > Why not just create a plain "WIRELESS" umbrella entry that contains >> > all of drivers/net/wireless, net/mac80211, and net/wireless? >> Whatever works for John I suppose. John, do you have a preference? >> I was trying to avoid the "S: Maintained" label >> and was copying the form of this section: >> >> NETWORKING DRIVERS >> L: netdev@vger.kernel.org >> W: http://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/Net >> T: git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6.git >> S: Odd Fixes >> F: drivers/net/ > > Just out of curiosity, why is drivers/net marked as "Odd fixes" and not > "Maintained"? Because it depends upon the individual driver maintainers. For example, I don't think one could claim 3c515.c or other ISA ethernet drivers to be in any kind of "Maintained" state.