From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757918Ab1KPRnd (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Nov 2011 12:43:33 -0500 Received: from perches-mx.perches.com ([206.117.179.246]:41820 "EHLO labridge.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757802Ab1KPRnc (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Nov 2011 12:43:32 -0500 Message-ID: <1321465409.16820.12.camel@Joe-Laptop> Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: update maintainers for blackfin arch and drivers. From: Joe Perches To: Mike Frysinger Cc: uclinux-dist-devel@blackfin.uclinux.org, Sonic Zhang , LKML Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 09:43:29 -0800 In-Reply-To: <201111161211.03784.vapier@gentoo.org> References: <1321429708-13862-1-git-send-email-sonic.adi@gmail.com> <201111161020.53989.vapier@gentoo.org> <1321461375.16820.7.camel@Joe-Laptop> <201111161211.03784.vapier@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.2.1- Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 2011-11-16 at 12:11 -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Wednesday 16 November 2011 11:36:15 Joe Perches wrote: > > On Wed, 2011-11-16 at 10:20 -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > > On Wednesday 16 November 2011 08:12:06 Joe Perches wrote: > > > > Drivers or arches without specific people to maintain > > > > them really should not have "S: Supported". > > > > These should really be "S: Orphan". > > > all the drivers are still maintained. use the L: option to find the > > > maintainer. > > I believe I know how the MAINTAINERS > > entries work. > > From MAINTAINERS: > > M: Mail patches to: FullName > > L: Mailing list that is relevant to this area > > Mailing lists aren't maintainers. > they contain all the maintainers That's akin to lkml as the kernel maintainer. > > Maybe Analog Devices should create > > an email address alias like > > linux-devel@analog.com > > so we should duplicate the ml into an alias to keep MAINTAINERS happy ? When there is a company but not individuals responsible for an arch or drivers, then yes. > makes no sense. use the ml. You mean the list that bounces my email? >-----Original Message----- >From: uclinux-dist-devel-bounces@blackfin.uclinux.org >[mailto:uclinux-dist-devel-bounces@blackfin.uclinux.org] That's suboptimal.