From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: exclude char maintainers from things they do not maintain
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2020 18:28:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200930162828.GA1672130@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200930133656.GY3674@minyard.net>
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 <arnd@arndb.de>
> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
>
> Yes, please do. No reason for you to get all the noise from these.
>
> Acked-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>
Thanks!
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-30 16:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-30 12:10 [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: exclude char maintainers from things they do not maintain Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-09-30 13:19 ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-09-30 16:28 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-09-30 13:36 ` Corey Minyard
2020-09-30 16:28 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2020-09-30 20:02 ` Joe Perches
2020-10-01 6:29 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-10-01 6:41 ` Joe Perches
2020-10-01 11:38 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
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