From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932421AbbHJPoT (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Aug 2015 11:44:19 -0400 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:40313 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751602AbbHJPoR (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Aug 2015 11:44:17 -0400 Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2015 08:44:17 -0700 From: Greg KH To: "Jason A. Donenfeld" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dan.carpenter@oracle.com, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, shigekatsu.tateno@atmel.com, rupesh.gujare@atmel.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] ozwpan: The maintainers are MIA, so orphan Message-ID: <20150810154417.GA14033@kroah.com> References: <1439214440-14461-1-git-send-email-Jason@zx2c4.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1439214440-14461-1-git-send-email-Jason@zx2c4.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23+102 (2ca89bed6448) (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 03:47:19PM +0200, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote: > Ozwpan is completely unmaintained and potentially a security problem. As > this is a staging driver, it should be removed, since it has been > abandoned. Marking it as orphaned is the first step here. > > Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld > --- > MAINTAINERS | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS > index 2d3d55c..0e14772 100644 > --- a/MAINTAINERS > +++ b/MAINTAINERS > @@ -9717,7 +9717,7 @@ F: drivers/staging/olpc_dcon/ > > STAGING - OZMO DEVICES USB OVER WIFI DRIVER > M: Shigekatsu Tateno > -S: Maintained > +S: Orphan > F: drivers/staging/ozwpan/ As you are deleting the whole driver, this whole entry should be removed as well, marking it "Orphan" doesn't mean anything after your second patch. Just do it all in one patch, that makes more sense. thanks, greg k-h