From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93BEEC433EF for ; Wed, 13 Apr 2022 06:53:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S233151AbiDMGzQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Apr 2022 02:55:16 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:41798 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S229490AbiDMGzL (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Apr 2022 02:55:11 -0400 Received: from dfw.source.kernel.org (dfw.source.kernel.org [139.178.84.217]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A055426118 for ; Tue, 12 Apr 2022 23:52:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.kernel.org (relay.kernel.org [52.25.139.140]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by dfw.source.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2929261D07 for ; Wed, 13 Apr 2022 06:52:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 2C799C385A4; Wed, 13 Apr 2022 06:52:48 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=linuxfoundation.org; s=korg; t=1649832769; bh=IEqi4TrpG6lNCJBW66RRrnO7sFCu0A/GuxCQPlxDAAM=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=WXTeBgqPioI0G42uxtMfVmti0ZNWls+Xr0edWGJ7b9DWXiF8ROxVDDMMeAJhp3Ns/ 6MiLdHqCeshWqw+OUG8toAKOUfMJUf17lLNAq9HdpS98i85grXycDHlNTCLdIHLP8m psGQpthk/ZOlsZBhf6gymq4DWqEVTXJqx6UiWR/4= Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2022 08:52:47 +0200 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: "Fabio M. De Francesco" Cc: linux-staging@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, outreachy@lists.linux.dev Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: Remove the drivers for the Unisys s-Par Message-ID: References: <20220412215901.31046-1-fmdefrancesco@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20220412215901.31046-1-fmdefrancesco@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Apr 12, 2022 at 11:59:01PM +0200, Fabio M. De Francesco wrote: > The Unisys sub-tree contains three drivers for the "Unisys Secure Partition" > (s-Par(R)): visorhba, visorinput, visornic. > > They have no maintainers, in fact the only one that is listed in MAINTAINERS > has an unreacheable email address. During 2021 and 2022 several patches have > been submitted to these drivers but nobody at Unisys cared of reviewing the > changes. Probably, also the "sparmaintainer" internal list of unisys.com is > not anymore read by interested Unisys' engineers. > > Therefore, remove the ./unisys subdirectory of staging and delete the related > entries in the MAINTAINERS, Kconfig, Makefile files. > > Suggested-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman > Signed-off-by: Fabio M. De Francesco > --- > MAINTAINERS | 8 - You forgot to at least cc: the people/list on the MAINTAINERS entry that you are removing here, to give them a hint that this is happening in case they want to speak up here (and to give us the ability to point to that years later when they complain they were never notified...) Also, if you are in the "delete code" mood, I think drivers/staging/vme/ and drivers/vme/ can probably also be deleted given that the maintainer for that has moved on to other jobs. Ask them and see! thanks, greg k-h