Re: [PATCH v2] staging: Remove the drivers for the Unisys s-Par

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On Wed, Apr 13, 2022 at 10:01:11AM +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 and delete the relevant entries
> in the MAINTAINERS, Kconfig, Makefile files.
> 
> Cc: David Kershner <david.kershner@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: sparmaintainer@xxxxxxxxxx
> Suggested-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Fabio M. De Francesco <fmdefrancesco@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> 
> v1->v2: Add two "Cc:" lines, one to David Kershner and the second to the
> "sparmaintainer" list at unisys.com, as requested by Greg Kroah-Hartman.
> 
>  MAINTAINERS                                   |    8 -
>  drivers/staging/Kconfig                       |    2 -
>  drivers/staging/Makefile                      |    1 -
>  .../ABI/sysfs-platform-visorchipset           |   89 -
>  .../staging/unisys/Documentation/overview.txt |  337 ---
>  drivers/staging/unisys/Kconfig                |   16 -
>  drivers/staging/unisys/MAINTAINERS            |    5 -
>  drivers/staging/unisys/Makefile               |    7 -
>  drivers/staging/unisys/TODO                   |   16 -
>  drivers/staging/unisys/include/iochannel.h    |  571 -----
>  drivers/staging/unisys/visorhba/Kconfig       |   15 -
>  drivers/staging/unisys/visorhba/Makefile      |   10 -
>  .../staging/unisys/visorhba/visorhba_main.c   | 1142 ---------
>  drivers/staging/unisys/visorinput/Kconfig     |   16 -
>  drivers/staging/unisys/visorinput/Makefile    |    7 -
>  .../staging/unisys/visorinput/visorinput.c    |  788 ------
>  drivers/staging/unisys/visornic/Kconfig       |   16 -
>  drivers/staging/unisys/visornic/Makefile      |   10 -
>  .../staging/unisys/visornic/visornic_main.c   | 2131 -----------------



>  19 files changed, 5187 deletions(-)
>  delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/unisys/Documentation/ABI/sysfs-platform-visorchipset
>  delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/unisys/Documentation/overview.txt
>  delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/unisys/Kconfig
>  delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/unisys/MAINTAINERS
>  delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/unisys/Makefile
>  delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/unisys/TODO
>  delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/unisys/include/iochannel.h
>  delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/unisys/visorhba/Kconfig
>  delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/unisys/visorhba/Makefile
>  delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/unisys/visorhba/visorhba_main.c
>  delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/unisys/visorinput/Kconfig
>  delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/unisys/visorinput/Makefile
>  delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/unisys/visorinput/visorinput.c
>  delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/unisys/visornic/Kconfig
>  delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/unisys/visornic/Makefile
>  delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/unisys/visornic/visornic_main.c
> 
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index 3ed62dcd144e..a62da6d0f943 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -20183,14 +20183,6 @@ F:	drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c
>  F:	include/linux/cdrom.h
>  F:	include/uapi/linux/cdrom.h
>  
> -UNISYS S-PAR DRIVERS
> -M:	David Kershner <david.kershner@xxxxxxxxxx>
> -L:	sparmaintainer@xxxxxxxxxx (Unisys internal)
> -S:	Supported
> -F:	drivers/staging/unisys/
> -F:	drivers/visorbus/

You forgot to delete the files in this directory as well :(

thanks,

greg k-h




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