[PATCH] MAINTAINERS: remove outdated entry for crypto/rng.c

[PATCH] MAINTAINERS: remove outdated entry for crypto/rng.c

[Eric Biggers]

Lore shows no emails from Neil on linux-crypto since 2020.  Without the
listed person being active, this MAINTAINERS entry provides no value,
and actually is a bit confusing because while it is called the
"CRYPTOGRAPHIC RANDOM NUMBER GENERATOR", it is not the CRNG that is
normally used (drivers/char/random.c) which has a separate entry.
Remove this entry, so crypto/rng.c will just be covered by "CRYPTO API".

Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
---

This patch is targeting cryptodev/master

 MAINTAINERS | 6 ------
 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 55af015174a5..31bd5bf05ac2 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -6828,16 +6828,10 @@ CRYPTO SPEED TEST COMPARE
 M:	Wang Jinchao <wangjinchao@xfusion.com>
 L:	linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org
 S:	Maintained
 F:	tools/crypto/tcrypt/tcrypt_speed_compare.py
 
-CRYPTOGRAPHIC RANDOM NUMBER GENERATOR
-M:	Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
-L:	linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org
-S:	Maintained
-F:	crypto/rng.c
-
 CS3308 MEDIA DRIVER
 M:	Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@kernel.org>
 L:	linux-media@vger.kernel.org
 S:	Odd Fixes
 W:	http://linuxtv.org

base-commit: 1eb6c478f1edc4384d8fea765cd13ac01199e8b5
-- 
2.53.0

Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: remove outdated entry for crypto/rng.c

[Herbert Xu]

On Thu, Mar 05, 2026 at 08:19:15PM -0800, Eric Biggers wrote:
> Lore shows no emails from Neil on linux-crypto since 2020.  Without the
> listed person being active, this MAINTAINERS entry provides no value,
> and actually is a bit confusing because while it is called the
> "CRYPTOGRAPHIC RANDOM NUMBER GENERATOR", it is not the CRNG that is
> normally used (drivers/char/random.c) which has a separate entry.
> Remove this entry, so crypto/rng.c will just be covered by "CRYPTO API".
> 
> Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
> ---
> 
> This patch is targeting cryptodev/master
> 
>  MAINTAINERS | 6 ------
>  1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)

Patch applied.  Thanks.
-- 
Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/
PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt