From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
To: Alessandro Zummo <alessandro.zummo@towertech.it>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>,
Richard Knutsson <ricknu-0@student.ltu.se>,
Benoit Boissinot <benoit.boissinot@ens-lyon.fr>,
p_gortmaker@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/13] RTC subsystem, class
Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2006 18:53:49 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060304175349.GL9295@stusta.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060304184611.784fd939@inspiron>
On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 06:46:11PM +0100, Alessandro Zummo wrote:
> On Sat, 4 Mar 2006 18:08:10 +0100
> Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> wrote:
>
> > > +REAL TIME CLOCK (RTC) SUBSYSTEM
> > > +P: Alessandro Zummo
> > > +M: a.zummo@towertech.it
> > > +L: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> > > +S: Maintained
> > > +
> > >...
> >
> > The entry above the one you are adding is:
> >
> > REAL TIME CLOCK DRIVER
> > P: Paul Gortmaker
> > M: p_gortmaker@yahoo.com
> > L: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> > S: Maintained
> >
> >
> > Two entries for the same thing only cause confusion.
>
> It is not the same thing. Paul's one is the standard rtc
> driver, which has not yet replaced by the rtc class.
My wording wasn't good:
Two entries that sound as if they were for the same thing only cause
confusion.
The problem is that MAINTAINERS is written for people sending patches or
bug reports and the difference between these two entries is very subtle.
> Best regards,
> Alessandro Zummo,
cu
Adrian
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-04 17:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-04 16:42 [PATCH 00/13] RTC subsystem Alessandro Zummo
2006-03-04 16:42 ` [PATCH 01/13] RTC Subsystem, library functions Alessandro Zummo
2006-03-04 16:58 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-03-04 17:12 ` Alessandro Zummo
2006-03-04 17:20 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-03-04 16:42 ` [PATCH 02/13] RTC subsystem, ARM cleanup Alessandro Zummo
2006-03-04 16:42 ` [PATCH 03/13] RTC subsystem, MIPS cleanup Alessandro Zummo
2006-03-04 16:42 ` [PATCH 04/13] RTC subsystem, class Alessandro Zummo
2006-03-04 17:08 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-03-04 17:46 ` Alessandro Zummo
2006-03-04 17:53 ` Adrian Bunk [this message]
2006-03-04 18:04 ` Alessandro Zummo
2006-03-04 16:42 ` [PATCH 05/13] RTC subsystem, I2C cleanup Alessandro Zummo
2006-03-04 16:42 ` [PATCH 06/13] RTC subsystem, sysfs interface Alessandro Zummo
2006-03-04 16:42 ` [PATCH 07/13] RTC subsystem, proc interface Alessandro Zummo
2006-03-04 16:42 ` [PATCH 08/13] RTC subsystem, dev interface Alessandro Zummo
2006-03-04 16:42 ` [PATCH 09/13] RTC subsystem, X1205 driver Alessandro Zummo
2006-03-04 16:42 ` [PATCH 10/13] RTC subsystem, test device/driver Alessandro Zummo
2006-03-04 16:42 ` [PATCH 11/13] RTC subsystem, DS1672 driver Alessandro Zummo
2006-03-04 16:42 ` [PATCH 12/13] RTC subsystem, PCF8563 driver Alessandro Zummo
2006-03-04 16:43 ` [PATCH 13/13] RTC subsystem, RS5C372 driver Alessandro Zummo
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-02-26 23:14 [PATCH 00/13] RTC subsystem Alessandro Zummo
2006-02-26 23:14 ` [PATCH 04/13] RTC subsystem, class Alessandro Zummo
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