From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (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 4E5401FA6 for ; Tue, 12 Apr 2022 12:02:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 6B70BC385A5; Tue, 12 Apr 2022 12:02:21 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=linuxfoundation.org; s=korg; t=1649764941; bh=RL0TS6TyTsdDUGUm/EuXSEF8ETZ+oamHhp+RILM0/YA=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=u3mHLMHoovRPWuJ8y8P/Vdf5aWsXfBlbwPd/Lv1CC2gAYrz46aDVuZy2dSkGLSWmE hpBubU2oQjoy5rFdmrvHhehRBFD4euGUaRkf+8y/ARPVcMFqqMajIZJKh10O45Oc9C VsxROyNh+ZUUyk13ISrKKT92HWZsCR8RKZeqBRIs= Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2022 14:02:18 +0200 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: "Fabio M. De Francesco" Cc: Liu Junqi , Bart Van Assche , "Martin K. Petersen" , "Gustavo A. R. Silva" , Jakub Kicinski , Colin Ian King , sparmaintainer@unisys.com, linux-staging@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] MAINTAINERS: Remove D. Kershner from Unisys S-PAR maintainers Message-ID: References: <20220412103629.8029-1-fmdefrancesco@gmail.com> <2976258.CbtlEUcBR6@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: <2976258.CbtlEUcBR6@leap> On Tue, Apr 12, 2022 at 01:08:28PM +0200, Fabio M. De Francesco wrote: > On marted? 12 aprile 2022 12:41:27 CEST Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 12, 2022 at 12:36:29PM +0200, Fabio M. De Francesco wrote: > > > The email address of David Kershner is no more reachable. Remove his > > > entry from the MAINTAINERS file for UNISYS S-PAR DRIVERS and change > > > the status to "Orphan". > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Fabio M. De Francesco > > > --- > > > > > > v1->v2: Change also the status of the entry to "Orphan" and rework the > > > commit message. (Thanks to Greg Kroah-Hartman). > > > > > > MAINTAINERS | 3 +-- > > > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) > > > > > > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS > > > index 3ed62dcd144e..9283c63565b3 100644 > > > --- a/MAINTAINERS > > > +++ b/MAINTAINERS > > > @@ -20184,9 +20184,8 @@ F: include/linux/cdrom.h > > > F: include/uapi/linux/cdrom.h > > > > > > UNISYS S-PAR DRIVERS > > > -M: David Kershner > > > L: sparmaintainer@unisys.com (Unisys internal) > > > > Again, please drop this "list" as it obviously is not going to anyone. > > OK, I'll also drop the "L:" line. I wasn't sure about it because I see > that there are other entries marked as "Orphan" and the list is still > there. But you are right: although the "sparmaintainer" list address is > not bouncing, it looks like nobody care to read messages there. > > > And really, this whole code should be removed, no one seems to be using > > it, and if they are, we can easily revert the removal and mark them as > > the maintainer. > > 1) If I remove the entire drivers/staging/unisys/ I suppose that, in > MAINTAINERS I should also remove the whole entry called "UNISYS S-PAR > DRIVERS", not only the "L:" line. Yes, _AND_ you need to also remove all files that are listed for that entry. > 2) Furthermore, I understand that I should also should change the relevant > Kbuild files, otherwise all builds of staging would fail. Yes. thanks, greg k-h