About the maintainer of "MOUSE AND MISC DEVICES"

About the maintainer of "MOUSE AND MISC DEVICES"

[Rodolfo Giometti]

Hello,

I just wrote to Alessandro in order to have some suggestions about a
misc device I wish to propose to this list, but he told me that he
wants leave his maintanership.

So which is the person should I send my requests about misc devices?

He also asked to me to propose to this list a "patch" to remove him
from the MAINTANERS file... if so the new entry should be:

MOUSE AND MISC DEVICES [GENERAL]
L:      linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
S:      Maintained

Is taht correct?

Ciao,

Rodolfo

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Re: About the maintainer of "MOUSE AND MISC DEVICES"

[Randy Dunlap]

On Tue, 30 Sep 2008 17:37:08 +0200 Rodolfo Giometti wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I just wrote to Alessandro in order to have some suggestions about a
> misc device I wish to propose to this list, but he told me that he
> wants leave his maintanership.
> 
> So which is the person should I send my requests about misc devices?
> 
> He also asked to me to propose to this list a "patch" to remove him
> from the MAINTANERS file... if so the new entry should be:
> 
> MOUSE AND MISC DEVICES [GENERAL]
> L:      linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> S:      Maintained
> 
> Is taht correct?

I'd say that the entry should just be for MISC DEVICES.
MOUSE is covered/handled by INPUT DRIVERS.

The L: and S: look OK to me.

Please send a patch to linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org and
to akpm@linux-foundation.org .

Thanks,
---
~Randy

Re: About the maintainer of "MOUSE AND MISC DEVICES"

[Jiri Kosina]

On Tue, 30 Sep 2008, Rodolfo Giometti wrote:

> I just wrote to Alessandro in order to have some suggestions about a 
> misc device I wish to propose to this list, but he told me that he wants 
> leave his maintanership.
> So which is the person should I send my requests about misc devices?
> He also asked to me to propose to this list a "patch" to remove him
> from the MAINTANERS file... if so the new entry should be:
> MOUSE AND MISC DEVICES [GENERAL]
> L:      linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> S:      Maintained

I in fact never understood what this maintainers entry meant ... what is 
the device in question here?

Anyway, something for Andrew



From: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Subject: [PATCH] remove "Mouse and Misc devices" from MAINTAINERS

remove "Mouse and Misc devices" from MAINTAINERS

Alessandro himself claims that he gives up maintainership, and to be 
frank, I don't have a clue what this entry is about.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>

--- 

 MAINTAINERS |    6 ------
 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 3596d17..3d9635f 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -2818,12 +2818,6 @@ M:	ppisa@pikron.com
 L:	linux-arm-kernel@lists.arm.linux.org.uk (subscribers-only)
 S:	Maintained
 
-MOUSE AND MISC DEVICES [GENERAL]
-P:	Alessandro Rubini
-M:	rubini@ipvvis.unipv.it
-L:	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
-S:	Maintained
-
 MOXA SMARTIO/INDUSTIO/INTELLIO SERIAL CARD
 P:	Jiri Slaby
 M:	jirislaby@gmail.com

Re: About the maintainer of "MOUSE AND MISC DEVICES"

[Kristoffer Ericson]

On Tue, 30 Sep 2008 22:55:40 +0200 (CEST)
Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> wrote:

> On Tue, 30 Sep 2008, Rodolfo Giometti wrote:
> 
> > I just wrote to Alessandro in order to have some suggestions about a 
> > misc device I wish to propose to this list, but he told me that he wants 
> > leave his maintanership.
> > So which is the person should I send my requests about misc devices?
> > He also asked to me to propose to this list a "patch" to remove him
> > from the MAINTANERS file... if so the new entry should be:
> > MOUSE AND MISC DEVICES [GENERAL]
> > L:      linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> > S:      Maintained
> 
> I in fact never understood what this maintainers entry meant ... what is 
> the device in question here?

I thought mouse was a part of linux-input? Or am I missing something?
Besides that misc thingie is really creepy, makes me feel Ive
missed something.

> 
> Anyway, something for Andrew
> 
> 
> 
> From: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
> Subject: [PATCH] remove "Mouse and Misc devices" from MAINTAINERS
> 
> remove "Mouse and Misc devices" from MAINTAINERS
> 
> Alessandro himself claims that he gives up maintainership, and to be 
> frank, I don't have a clue what this entry is about.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
> 
> --- 
> 
>  MAINTAINERS |    6 ------
>  1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index 3596d17..3d9635f 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -2818,12 +2818,6 @@ M:	ppisa@pikron.com
>  L:	linux-arm-kernel@lists.arm.linux.org.uk (subscribers-only)
>  S:	Maintained
>  
> -MOUSE AND MISC DEVICES [GENERAL]
> -P:	Alessandro Rubini
> -M:	rubini@ipvvis.unipv.it
> -L:	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> -S:	Maintained
> -
>  MOXA SMARTIO/INDUSTIO/INTELLIO SERIAL CARD
>  P:	Jiri Slaby
>  M:	jirislaby@gmail.com
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Re: About the maintainer of "MOUSE AND MISC DEVICES"

[Jiri Kosina]

On Tue, 30 Sep 2008, Kristoffer Ericson wrote:

> > I in fact never understood what this maintainers entry meant ... what 
> > is the device in question here?
> I thought mouse was a part of linux-input? Or am I missing something?

It is. Generic mice interface is maintained by Dmitry as part of linux 
input subsystem, and USB mice (usb hid) is maintained by me.

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Jiri Kosina
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Re: About the maintainer of "MOUSE AND MISC DEVICES"

[Randy Dunlap]

On Tue, 30 Sep 2008 23:54:57 +0200 (CEST) Jiri Kosina wrote:

> On Tue, 30 Sep 2008, Kristoffer Ericson wrote:
> 
> > > I in fact never understood what this maintainers entry meant ... what 
> > > is the device in question here?
> > I thought mouse was a part of linux-input? Or am I missing something?
> 
> It is. Generic mice interface is maintained by Dmitry as part of linux 
> input subsystem, and USB mice (usb hid) is maintained by me.

Ack.  And there is no MISC maintainer, so Jiri's patch to remove the
entire entry makes sense IMO.

---
~Randy

Re: About the maintainer of "MOUSE AND MISC DEVICES"

[Alessandro Rubini]

Randy:
> Ack.  And there is no MISC maintainer, so Jiri's patch to remove the
> entire entry makes sense IMO.

Yes, I agree.

Actually, I've not been active at all, nor did I get but a few
contacts over the years.

thanks
/alessandro

Re: About the maintainer of "MOUSE AND MISC DEVICES"

[Rodolfo Giometti]

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 03:49:08PM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:

> Ack.  And there is no MISC maintainer, so Jiri's patch to remove the
> entire entry makes sense IMO.

However misc devices exist, so no maintaner for them? I'd like to
propose a misc device and I'd like to have some suggestions about it,
so should I send my questions to the LKML?

Ciao,

Rodolfo

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Re: About the maintainer of "MOUSE AND MISC DEVICES"

[Jiri Kosina]

On Wed, 1 Oct 2008, Rodolfo Giometti wrote:

> > Ack.  And there is no MISC maintainer, so Jiri's patch to remove the 
> > entire entry makes sense IMO.
> However misc devices exist, so no maintaner for them? I'd like to
> propose a misc device and I'd like to have some suggestions about it,
> so should I send my questions to the LKML?

If you have a driver that doesn't fit under any particular subsystem, it 
therefore probably belongs into drivers/misc, yes.

Send them to LKML and CC Andrew Morton and possibly also Greg KH.

Thanks,

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Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs