From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932385AbVHIAaT (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Aug 2005 20:30:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932386AbVHIAaT (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Aug 2005 20:30:19 -0400 Received: from dsl017-059-136.wdc2.dsl.speakeasy.net ([69.17.59.136]:31876 "EHLO luther.kurtwerks.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932385AbVHIAaS (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Aug 2005 20:30:18 -0400 Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2005 20:31:40 -0400 From: Kurt Wall To: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH] Removing maintainer's bad e-mails Message-ID: <20050809003140.GJ7667@kurtwerks.com> Mail-Followup-To: Linux Kernel Mailing List References: <42F69E53.40602@gmail.com> <20050808183300.GB26182@redhat.com> <20050808224917.GP4006@stusta.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050808224917.GP4006@stusta.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Operating-System: Linux 2.6.12.3 X-Woot: Woot! Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 12:49:17AM +0200, Adrian Bunk took 42 lines to write: > On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 02:33:00PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote: > > > > You may as well change the S: to unmaintained whilst > > you're there, it hasn't seen any updates in a long time, > > and still uses several out-of-date SCSI APIs. > > Or he could completely remove the entry. > > We don't have entries for every single unmaintained driver, and the > smaller MAINTAINERS is the higher is the possibility of not missing a > relevant entry when checking whom to send an email. Hmm, so if a subsystem or driver (more drivers, I should think) lacks an entry in MAINTAINERS, is it then reasonable to assume that it is unmaintained? If not, perhaps creating a separate list of unmaintained subsystems and/or drivers is prudent? Kurt -- Don't get even -- get odd!