On 09/18/2011 08:28 AM, Greg KH wrote: > On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 08:11:45AM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote: >> On 09/05/2011 07:19 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: >>> I think it would simply be more consistent to have it enabled all >>> the time. Well, even better would be to move the bulk of the misc >>> drivers to a proper location sorted by their subsystems. A lot of them >>> should never have been merged in their current state IMHO. >> >> >> If it's clear where they belong, then sure, they should be somewhere >> other than drivers/misc/, but I don't see that it's clear for several >> of them. >> >> >>> I think I should finally do what has been talked about a few times and >>> formally become the maintainer of drivers/char and drivers/misc ;-) >>> >>> The problem is that I'm not actually a good maintainer, but maybe it's >>> better to just have someone instead of falling back to Andrew or >>> some random subsystem maintainer to send any patches for drivers/misc. >> >> We have fallbacks to Andrew and/or GregKH currently, but GregKH is not >> consistent or timely with applying drivers/misc/ patches. It deserves better. >> [added him to Cc: list] > > I do try to handle patches sent to me for misc/ in time for the > different merge windows as that directory contains drivers that have > moved out of the staging/ directory. > > But yes, I'm not the overall drivers/misc/ maintainer, do we really need > one? If so, I can easily start maintaining a development tree for it to > keep it separate for the different driver authors to send me stuff and > start tracking it more "for real" if Arnd doesn't want to do it. We need for the patches to be applied in a timely manner. Sometimes when there is no real maintainer, that does not happen. -- ~Randy *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
