From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
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
Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2017 18:13:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170827161307.GA3528@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1503848143.12569.48.camel@perches.com>
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...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-08-27 16:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-08-27 15:03 [PATCH 0/4] irda: move it to drivers/staging so we can delete it Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-08-27 15:03 ` [PATCH 1/4] irda: move net/irda/ to drivers/staging/irda/net/ Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-08-30 6:04 ` [lkp-robot] [irda] 66d98e78e4: BUG:unable_to_handle_kernel kernel test robot
2017-08-30 6:12 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-08-30 6:19 ` Ye Xiaolong
2017-08-27 15:03 ` [PATCH 2/4] irda: move drivers/net/irda to drivers/staging/irda/drivers Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-08-27 15:03 ` [PATCH 3/4] irda: move include/net/irda into staging subdirectory Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-08-27 15:03 ` [PATCH 4/4] staging: irda: add a TODO file Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-08-27 15:35 ` [PATCH 0/4] irda: move it to drivers/staging so we can delete it Joe Perches
2017-08-27 16:13 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2017-08-27 16:19 ` Joe Perches
2017-08-27 16:53 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-08-27 23:15 ` Joe Perches
2017-08-28 23:42 ` David Miller
2017-08-28 23:46 ` Joe Perches
2017-08-29 5:06 ` Greg KH
2017-08-29 21:32 ` Ondrej Zary
2017-08-31 4:30 ` Greg KH
2017-08-31 7:31 ` Ondrej Zary
2017-08-29 10:59 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2017-08-29 11:11 ` Stefano Brivio
2017-08-29 11:28 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-08-29 12:11 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2017-08-29 14:48 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-08-29 16:49 ` David Miller
2017-08-29 16:38 ` David Miller
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