Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: fix entry of char/misc

[Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 10:39:47AM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> 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 <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> > > >  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.)

Then what about the ones that has a maintainer? I had specifically
sgi-gru in mind when I made this patch. I hope you remember the issue
that I pointed out when i sent some patches for that.

regards
sudip