From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932109Ab0FHVNA (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Jun 2010 17:13:00 -0400 Received: from kroah.org ([198.145.64.141]:38988 "EHLO coco.kroah.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756303Ab0FHVM6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Jun 2010 17:12:58 -0400 Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2010 14:12:46 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Joe Perches Cc: Andrew Morton , Andrew Lunn , Jarod Wilson , Jakub Schmidtke , Henk de Groot , Naren Sankar , Jonathan Cameron , Pavel Machek , Luis Rodriguez , devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, Mori Hess , Steve Underwood , Simon Wunderlich , Arnaud Patard , Marek Lindner , Teddy Wang , Ossama Othman , Haiyang Zhang , Ian Abbott , Willy Tarreau , Scott Davilla , Scott Smedley , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Forest Bond , David Rowe Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/17] MAINTAINERS: Add drivers/staging entries Message-ID: <20100608211246.GC10657@kroah.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jun 07, 2010 at 11:49:34AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > Some drivers/staging directories use a TODO file with email entries. > Make the same entries in the normal MAINTAINERS file. No, please don't do this. I don't want to clutter up the MAINTAINERS file with staging stuff. The get_maintainer.pl script handles staging patches just fine today without this being needed at all. I also found it a bit odd you didn't send these to the stable subsystem maintainer, why? greg k-h