From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mga12.intel.com (mga12.intel.com [192.55.52.136]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 666882F32; Wed, 13 Apr 2022 19:29:59 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=intel.com; i=@intel.com; q=dns/txt; s=Intel; t=1649878199; x=1681414199; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references: mime-version:in-reply-to; bh=UBmMG/Y1pzjOMY+f80C2PIXPYSoEJlNzIOTHjCL4Elg=; b=fxfEYDDsYosGgYuB4Mg89lTuhgPwAXNbIVREuEOSmI6bU1CA7Iplw+NI nTb8o6r3ao9SzQvuFiPci2ECxRI7XcY0Tr+jRyIS4VtXfeKTKOpdM9orK NKL0wPvi9BTmiYiTVumneDUAuTalFhWzPMPyK87O2ZTuUQIWR4JRCIfba ygN6dqDnU9Z5tR23jkGTdktd3cHN1SpOXtIdvIR7NON9hjwjWmoxs36sE nNr1bTfy/qkdxf/+QhJbprlYuHzkJA1aWYfgagm4qAHc+lVAvOtD3NUBX PVtEe9XdhUso3R1zq6xTqqYlfnT5p7LNCEAqz/fbeLwDdPD2QnTU6ZGip w==; X-IronPort-AV: E=McAfee;i="6400,9594,10316"; a="242690343" X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.90,257,1643702400"; d="scan'208";a="242690343" Received: from orsmga007.jf.intel.com ([10.7.209.58]) by fmsmga106.fm.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 13 Apr 2022 12:29:58 -0700 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.90,257,1643702400"; d="scan'208";a="552337805" Received: from alison-desk.jf.intel.com (HELO alison-desk) ([10.54.74.41]) by orsmga007-auth.jf.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 13 Apr 2022 12:29:57 -0700 Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2022 12:31:52 -0700 From: Alison Schofield To: "Fabio M. De Francesco" Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , "linux-staging@lists.linux.dev" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "outreachy@lists.linux.dev" Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: Remove the drivers for the Unisys s-Par Message-ID: <20220413193152.GA1242449@alison-desk> References: <20220412215901.31046-1-fmdefrancesco@gmail.com> <3988824.6PsWsQAL7t@leap> <20220413153824.GA1241369@alison-desk> <7390243.EvYhyI6sBW@leap> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-staging@lists.linux.dev List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7390243.EvYhyI6sBW@leap> On Wed, Apr 13, 2022 at 11:57:20AM -0700, Fabio M. De Francesco wrote: > On mercoled? 13 aprile 2022 17:38:24 CEST Alison Schofield wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 13, 2022 at 09:35:53AM +0200, Fabio M. De Francesco wrote: > > > 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 > > > > > Signed-off-by: Fabio M. De Francesco > > > > > --- > > > > > 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. > > > > There is another contact in the TODO file (last updated 2015 though ;)) > > Ken Cox > > Hi Alison, Greg, > > Thank you very much for noticing that other contact :) > > In the last 12 months I have sent several patches for Unisys s-Par drivers > but I never noticed that other contact simply because I only ever use > scripts / get_maintainer.pl to find out who and to which lists to send my > works. > > @Greg: > > Do you think that we should care of a contact that is no more active since > 2015 and resubmit a v3 with one more "Cc:" line? I have no problems to > resubmit, I just want to be sure that this is the right thing to do. I didn't see a v2, so confused about a v3. You could simply do a group reply and add the contact, that'll put a trail in lore. Not my call. Guessing Greg has a protocol for such removals. > > Thanks, > > Fabio M. De Francesco > > >