Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: exclude char maintainers from things they do not maintain

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 01:02:46PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Wed, 2020-09-30 at 18:28 +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 08:36:56AM -0500, Corey Minyard wrote:
> > > On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 02:10:07PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > > There are a number of subdirectories and files in drivers/char/ that
> > > > have their own maintainers and developers and ways of getting patches to
> > > > Linus.  This includes random.c, IPMI, hardware random drivers, TPM
> > > > drivers, and agp drivers.  Instead of sending those patches to Arnd and
> > > > myself, who can't do anything with them, send them to the proper
> > > > developers instead.
> > > > 
> > > > Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> > > > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> > > 
> > > Yes, please do.  No reason for you to get all the noise from these.
> > > 
> > > Acked-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > 
> > greg k-h
> 
> Your exclusion list is:
> 
> +X:	drivers/char/agp/
> +X:	drivers/char/hw_random/
> +X:	drivers/char/ipmi/
> +X:	drivers/char/random.c
> +X:	drivers/char/tpm/
> 
> But the current subdirectories of drivers/char are:
> 
> drivers/char/agp
> drivers/char/hw_random
> drivers/char/ipmi
> drivers/char/mwave
> drivers/char/pcmcia
> drivers/char/tpm
> drivers/char/tpm/eventlog
> drivers/char/tpm/st33zp24
> drivers/char/xilinx_hwicap
> drivers/char/xillybus
> 
> do you want to specifically maintain any of them?

Yes, the other ones we do maintain.

> Wouldn't it be easier to add a single subdirectory exclusion
> and add specific inclusions for subdirectories you actually
> do want to maintain>
> 
> 
> X:	drivers/char/*/
> F:	drivers/char/<whatever>

If we do that, it will be one extra line in the MAINTAINERS file, as we
are dealing with 4 we want, and 4 we don't :)

I like being explicit as to what we do NOT want to review, it's easier
to see when glancing at the file.

thanks,

greg k-h