On Sun, 2017-08-27 at 18:53 +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Sun, Aug 27, 2017 at 09:19:19AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > > On Sun, 2017-08-27 at 18:13 +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > > 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... > > > > get_maintainer doesn't show it because it's subscriber-only. > > If you want get_maintainer to show it, add -s > > > > $ ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl -s -f net/irda/ > > Samuel Ortiz <samuel@xxxxxxxxxx> (maintainer:IRDA SUBSYSTEM) > > "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> (maintainer:NETWORKING [GENERAL]) > > irda-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (subscriber list:IRDA SUBSYSTEM) > > netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (open list:IRDA SUBSYSTEM) > > linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (open list) > > Sorry, am not going to subscribe to a random list just to send patches > that delete the subsystem :) Then you do a disservice to those that actually might be using that subsystem. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
