On mercoled? 13 aprile 2022 08:52:47 CEST Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Tue, Apr 12, 2022 at 11:59:01PM +0200, Fabio M. De Francesco wrote: > > The Unisys sub-tree contains three drivers for the "Unisys Secure Partition" > > (s-Par(R)): visorhba, visorinput, visornic. > > > > They have no maintainers, in fact the only one that is listed in MAINTAINERS > > has an unreacheable email address. During 2021 and 2022 several patches have > > been submitted to these drivers but nobody at Unisys cared of reviewing the > > changes. Probably, also the "sparmaintainer" internal list of unisys.com is > > not anymore read by interested Unisys' engineers. > > > > Therefore, remove the ./unisys subdirectory of staging and delete the related > > entries in the MAINTAINERS, Kconfig, Makefile files. > > > > Suggested-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Signed-off-by: Fabio M. De Francesco <fmdefrancesco@xxxxxxxxx> > > --- > > MAINTAINERS | 8 - > > You forgot to at least cc: the people/list on the MAINTAINERS entry that > you are removing here, to give them a hint that this is happening in > case they want to speak up here (and to give us the ability to point to > that years later when they complain they were never notified...) Yes, this is a good idea. I'll submit a v2 and add two "Cc:" lines, one to David Kershner and the other to the "sparmaintainer" list at unisys.com. > Also, if you are in the "delete code" mood, I think drivers/staging/vme/ > and drivers/vme/ can probably also be deleted given that the maintainer > for that has moved on to other jobs. Ask them and see! I can and will do exactly as you just suggested, but only after April 22nd (unless others want to do these tasks sooner, and in that case they are welcome :)). Thanks, Fabio M. De Francesco
