Re: [PATCH 0/4] irda: move it to drivers/staging so we can delete it

Joe Perches
2017-08-27T16:19:24Z

On Sun, 2017-08-27 at 18:13 +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 27, 2017 at 08:35:43AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Sun, 2017-08-27 at 17:03 +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > The IRDA code has long been obsolete and broken. So, to keep people
> > > from trying to use it, and to prevent people from having to maintain it,
> > > let's move it to drivers/staging/ so that we can delete it entirely from
> > > the kernel in a few releases.
> >
> >
> > MAINTAINERS should be updated as well.
> >
> > It'd probably be nice to try to get an email to
> > the irda mailing list too if it still works.
>
> As get_maintainer.pl didn't show it, odds are it doesn't...

get_maintainer doesn't show it because it's subscriber-only.
If you want get_maintainer to show it, add -s

$ ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl  -s -f net/irda/
Samuel Ortiz <samuel@sortiz.org> (maintainer:IRDA SUBSYSTEM)
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> (maintainer:NETWORKING [GENERAL])
irda-users@lists.sourceforge.net (subscriber list:IRDA SUBSYSTEM)
netdev@vger.kernel.org (open list:IRDA SUBSYSTEM)
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (open list)