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 7A1DAC433F5 for ; Thu, 14 Apr 2022 07:14:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S238391AbiDNHRE (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Apr 2022 03:17:04 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:42052 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S240302AbiDNHQ6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Apr 2022 03:16:58 -0400 Received: from dfw.source.kernel.org (dfw.source.kernel.org [IPv6:2604:1380:4641:c500::1]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 662A755BF for ; Thu, 14 Apr 2022 00:14:33 -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 040B961F0B for ; Thu, 14 Apr 2022 07:14:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 1249AC385A1; Thu, 14 Apr 2022 07:14:31 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=linuxfoundation.org; s=korg; t=1649920472; bh=6Ulq4vPvSESlovf/0Mf+v1wW/ppPfl/Olm8QJqcUudo=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=weXBD1jFcrp67Qmlcl0/y/ARiIuY/V9yXtNos3KhgK3xIFr5sfdvvuAHutvXCHnap BVKmJ1kkNkeyX3+jd54gscUpuydjv6WJlOchORNfLtdm07CqAxxu1lRoMAaShaRCGc aBDWkeDC61h9NB6ACFVxuJ0O03TwWw+LkTRxrZKs= Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2022 09:14:29 +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, David Kershner , sparmaintainer@unisys.com Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] staging: Remove the drivers for the Unisys s-Par Message-ID: References: <20220413080111.13861-1-fmdefrancesco@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20220413080111.13861-1-fmdefrancesco@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Apr 13, 2022 at 10:01:11AM +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 and delete the relevant entries > in the MAINTAINERS, Kconfig, Makefile files. > > Cc: David Kershner > Cc: sparmaintainer@unisys.com > Suggested-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman > Signed-off-by: Fabio M. De Francesco > --- > > v1->v2: Add two "Cc:" lines, one to David Kershner and the second to the > "sparmaintainer" list at unisys.com, as requested by Greg Kroah-Hartman. > > MAINTAINERS | 8 - > drivers/staging/Kconfig | 2 - > drivers/staging/Makefile | 1 - > .../ABI/sysfs-platform-visorchipset | 89 - > .../staging/unisys/Documentation/overview.txt | 337 --- > drivers/staging/unisys/Kconfig | 16 - > drivers/staging/unisys/MAINTAINERS | 5 - > drivers/staging/unisys/Makefile | 7 - > drivers/staging/unisys/TODO | 16 - > drivers/staging/unisys/include/iochannel.h | 571 ----- > drivers/staging/unisys/visorhba/Kconfig | 15 - > drivers/staging/unisys/visorhba/Makefile | 10 - > .../staging/unisys/visorhba/visorhba_main.c | 1142 --------- > drivers/staging/unisys/visorinput/Kconfig | 16 - > drivers/staging/unisys/visorinput/Makefile | 7 - > .../staging/unisys/visorinput/visorinput.c | 788 ------ > drivers/staging/unisys/visornic/Kconfig | 16 - > drivers/staging/unisys/visornic/Makefile | 10 - > .../staging/unisys/visornic/visornic_main.c | 2131 ----------------- > 19 files changed, 5187 deletions(-) > delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/unisys/Documentation/ABI/sysfs-platform-visorchipset > delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/unisys/Documentation/overview.txt > delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/unisys/Kconfig > delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/unisys/MAINTAINERS > delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/unisys/Makefile > delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/unisys/TODO > delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/unisys/include/iochannel.h > delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/unisys/visorhba/Kconfig > delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/unisys/visorhba/Makefile > delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/unisys/visorhba/visorhba_main.c > delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/unisys/visorinput/Kconfig > delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/unisys/visorinput/Makefile > delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/unisys/visorinput/visorinput.c > delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/unisys/visornic/Kconfig > delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/unisys/visornic/Makefile > delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/unisys/visornic/visornic_main.c > > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS > index 3ed62dcd144e..a62da6d0f943 100644 > --- a/MAINTAINERS > +++ b/MAINTAINERS > @@ -20183,14 +20183,6 @@ F: drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c > F: include/linux/cdrom.h > F: include/uapi/linux/cdrom.h > > -UNISYS S-PAR DRIVERS > -M: David Kershner > -L: sparmaintainer@unisys.com (Unisys internal) > -S: Supported > -F: drivers/staging/unisys/ > -F: drivers/visorbus/ You forgot to delete the files in this directory as well :( thanks, greg k-h