From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932727AbbJMRlk (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Oct 2015 13:41:40 -0400 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:34925 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932416AbbJMRli (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Oct 2015 13:41:38 -0400 Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 10:39:47 -0700 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: Sudip Mukherjee Cc: Joe Perches , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: fix entry of char/misc Message-ID: <20151013173947.GA8886@kroah.com> References: <1444730681-5778-1-git-send-email-sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com> <1444747685.9184.21.camel@perches.com> <20151013171924.GB6720@sudip-pc> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20151013171924.GB6720@sudip-pc> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 10:49:24PM +0530, Sudip Mukherjee wrote: > On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 07:48:05AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > > On Tue, 2015-10-13 at 15:34 +0530, Sudip Mukherjee wrote: > > > Greg and Arnd are supporter of char and misc drivers. While using > > > getmaintainer.pl on any patch or any file in these directories their > > > names were never displayed. > > [] > > > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS > > [] > > > M: Greg Kroah-Hartman > > > T: git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc.git > > > S: Supported > > > -F: drivers/char/* > > > -F: drivers/misc/* > > > +F: drivers/char/ > > > +F: drivers/misc/ > > > F: include/linux/miscdevice.h > > > > Do Greg and Arnd really want to be supporting all > > subsystems below drivers/char like agp and xillybus? > > I don't know that. Maybe Greg and Arnd can say. > But wasn't that the intention when char/* and misc/* was mentioned here? Kind of, I'm here to pick up the portions of this tree that do not have a maintainer already (random.c is one example.) thanks, greg k-h