From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752536Ab3HAIKC (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Aug 2013 04:10:02 -0400 Received: from perches-mx.perches.com ([206.117.179.246]:38838 "EHLO labridge.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750848Ab3HAIJ4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Aug 2013 04:09:56 -0400 Message-ID: <1375344595.2034.38.camel@joe-AO722> Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Add separate section for USB NETWORKING DRIVERS From: Joe Perches To: Greg KH Cc: LKML , linux-usb Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2013 01:09:55 -0700 In-Reply-To: <20130801075656.GA8074@kroah.com> References: <1375316960686@kroah.org> <1375343328.2034.34.camel@joe-AO722> <20130801075656.GA8074@kroah.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.6.4-0ubuntu1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2013-08-01 at 15:56 +0800, Greg KH wrote: > On Thu, Aug 01, 2013 at 12:48:48AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > > There are several drivers in drivers/net/usb/ that > > do not have specific MAINTAINERS that should have > > emails forwarded to the linux-usb mailing list. > > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS [] > > +USB NETWORKING DRIVERS > > +L: linux-usb@vger.kernel.org > > +S: Odd Fixes > > +F: drivers/net/usb/ > > But netdev is the one that applies these patches, not linux-usb, so this > isn't correct either. > > sorry, Lots of "maintainers" don't apply patches. This is simply a means to forward patches to relevant lists that may have reviewers that care about changes to certain files. You suggested that linux-usb should get copies of these patches. These files are not marked as "Maintained", just "Odd fixes". I suppose these could be marked "Orphan" instead. You have a suggestion otherwise?