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[79.43.11.75]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id h8-20020a1709066d8800b006e09a49a713sm252533ejt.159.2022.04.13.11.57.21 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Wed, 13 Apr 2022 11:57:22 -0700 (PDT) From: "Fabio M. De Francesco" To: Alison Schofield , Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: 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 Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2022 20:57:20 +0200 Message-ID: <7390243.EvYhyI6sBW@leap> In-Reply-To: <20220413153824.GA1241369@alison-desk> References: <20220412215901.31046-1-fmdefrancesco@gmail.com> <3988824.6PsWsQAL7t@leap> <20220413153824.GA1241369@alison-desk> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-staging@lists.linux.dev List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" 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. Thanks, Fabio M. De Francesco