Re: Status of Subsystems

[Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>]

On Tue, 2019-08-20 at 15:56 +0200, Sebastian Duda wrote:
> On 20.08.19 15:14, Pali Rohár wrote:
> > On Tuesday 20 August 2019 15:05:51 Sebastian Duda wrote:
> > > Hello Pali,
> > > 
> > > in my master thesis, I'm using the association of subsystems to
> > > maintainers/reviewers and its status given in the MAINTAINERS file.
> > > During the research I noticed that there are several subsystems without a
> > > status in the maintainers file. One of them is the subsystem `ALPS PS/2
> > > TOUCHPAD DRIVER` where you're mentioned as reviewer.
> > > 
> > > Is it intended not to mention a status for your subsystems?
> > > What is the current status of these systems?
> > > 
> > > Kind regards
> > > Sebastian Duda
> > 
> > Hi Sebastian! ALPS PS/2 is a driver for ALPS touchpad. They can be
> > found on more laptops. And ALPS PS/2 itself is not separate subsystem.
> > It is just driver which is part of kernel input subsystem with mailing
> > list linux-input@vger.kernel.org.
> > 
> Hi Pali,
> 
> so the status of the files is inherited from the subsystem `INPUT 
> MULTITOUCH (MT) PROTOCOL`?

Not really, no.

It's inherited from

MAINTAINERS-INPUT (KEYBOARD, MOUSE, JOYSTICK, TOUCHSCREEN) DRIVERS
MAINTAINERS-M:  Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
MAINTAINERS-L:  linux-input@vger.kernel.org
MAINTAINERS-Q:  http://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-input/list/
MAINTAINERS-T:  git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input.git
MAINTAINERS-S:  Maintained
MAINTAINERS:F:  drivers/input/
MAINTAINERS-F:  include/linux/input.h
MAINTAINERS-F:  include/uapi/linux/input.h
MAINTAINERS-F:  include/uapi/linux/input-event-codes.h
MAINTAINERS-F:  include/linux/input/
MAINTAINERS-F:  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/input/
MAINTAINERS-F:  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/serio/
MAINTAINERS-F:  Documentation/input/

You could see this via

$ ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f --sections drivers/input/mouse/alps.c
ALPS PS/2 TOUCHPAD DRIVER
R:	Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com>
F:	drivers/input/mouse/alps.*

INPUT (KEYBOARD, MOUSE, JOYSTICK, TOUCHSCREEN) DRIVERS
M:	Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
L:	linux-input@vger.kernel.org
Q:	http://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-input/list/
T:	git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input.git
S:	Maintained
F:	drivers/input/
F:	include/linux/input.h
F:	include/uapi/linux/input.h
F:	include/uapi/linux/input-event-codes.h
F:	include/linux/input/
F:	Documentation/devicetree/bindings/input/
F:	Documentation/devicetree/bindings/serio/
F:	Documentation/input/

THE REST
M:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
L:	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Q:	http://patchwork.kernel.org/project/LKML/list/
T:	git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git
S:	Buried alive in reporters
F:	*
F:	*/