From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-7.0 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SIGNED_OFF_BY,SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E26F9C4727C for ; Wed, 30 Sep 2020 20:02:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D0152072E for ; Wed, 30 Sep 2020 20:02:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1730009AbgI3UCu (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Sep 2020 16:02:50 -0400 Received: from smtprelay0022.hostedemail.com ([216.40.44.22]:53828 "EHLO smtprelay.hostedemail.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1725799AbgI3UCu (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Sep 2020 16:02:50 -0400 Received: from filter.hostedemail.com (clb03-v110.bra.tucows.net [216.40.38.60]) by smtprelay02.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47DF34DB7; Wed, 30 Sep 2020 20:02:49 +0000 (UTC) X-Session-Marker: 6A6F6540706572636865732E636F6D X-HE-Tag: leaf49_111729727195 X-Filterd-Recvd-Size: 2499 Received: from XPS-9350.home (unknown [47.151.133.149]) (Authenticated sender: joe@perches.com) by omf11.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA; Wed, 30 Sep 2020 20:02:48 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: exclude char maintainers from things they do not maintain From: Joe Perches To: Greg Kroah-Hartman , Corey Minyard Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Arnd Bergmann Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2020 13:02:46 -0700 In-Reply-To: <20200930162828.GA1672130@kroah.com> References: <20200930121007.GA1615300@kroah.com> <20200930133656.GY3674@minyard.net> <20200930162828.GA1672130@kroah.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" User-Agent: Evolution 3.36.4-0ubuntu1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 2020-09-30 at 18:28 +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 08:36:56AM -0500, Corey Minyard wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 02:10:07PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > > There are a number of subdirectories and files in drivers/char/ that > > > have their own maintainers and developers and ways of getting patches to > > > Linus. This includes random.c, IPMI, hardware random drivers, TPM > > > drivers, and agp drivers. Instead of sending those patches to Arnd and > > > myself, who can't do anything with them, send them to the proper > > > developers instead. > > > > > > Cc: Arnd Bergmann > > > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman > > > > Yes, please do. No reason for you to get all the noise from these. > > > > Acked-by: Corey Minyard > > Thanks! > > greg k-h Your exclusion list is: +X: drivers/char/agp/ +X: drivers/char/hw_random/ +X: drivers/char/ipmi/ +X: drivers/char/random.c +X: drivers/char/tpm/ But the current subdirectories of drivers/char are: drivers/char/agp drivers/char/hw_random drivers/char/ipmi drivers/char/mwave drivers/char/pcmcia drivers/char/tpm drivers/char/tpm/eventlog drivers/char/tpm/st33zp24 drivers/char/xilinx_hwicap drivers/char/xillybus do you want to specifically maintain any of them? Wouldn't it be easier to add a single subdirectory exclusion and add specific inclusions for subdirectories you actually do want to maintain> X: drivers/char/*/ F: drivers/char/