From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Randy Dunlap Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] misc: remove CONFIG_MISC_DEVICES Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2011 08:11:45 -0700 Message-ID: <4E760A31.8030807@xenotime.net> References: <20110829102732.03f0f05d.rdunlap@xenotime.net> <201109021643.14275.arnd@arndb.de> <20110905144134.2c80c4b9@endymion.delvare> <201109051619.35553.arnd@arndb.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from oproxy5-pub.bluehost.com ([67.222.38.55]:41693 "HELO oproxy5-pub.bluehost.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1755363Ab1IRPLr (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Sep 2011 11:11:47 -0400 In-Reply-To: <201109051619.35553.arnd@arndb.de> Sender: linux-omap-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-omap@vger.kernel.org To: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Jean Delvare , Luciano Coelho , matti.j.aaltonen@nokia.com, johannes@sipsolutions.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, sameo@linux.intel.com, mchehab@infradead.org, linux-media@vger.kernel.org, linux-omap@vger.kernel.org, Tony Lindgren , Grant Likely , Greg KH 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] So yes, I think that drivers/misc/ (and probably drivers/char/) deserves a maintainer, but you are not making a good case for you being that person. -- ~Randy *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code ***