From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Joe Perches Subject: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Mark some staging directories as "Obsolete" Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2018 11:33:56 -0800 Message-ID: <1515526436.9619.112.camel@perches.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: LKML , Petr Vandrovec , Samuel Ortiz , netdev To: Greg KH , Andrew Morton Return-path: Received: from smtprelay0001.hostedemail.com ([216.40.44.1]:45848 "EHLO smtprelay.hostedemail.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751263AbeAITeC (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Jan 2018 14:34:02 -0500 Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Several staging directories have TODO files that indicate a subsystem will be removed in the future. Using a status entry of "S: Obsolete" helps indicate the subsystem files should not be modified unnecessarily. checkpatch also tests this setting and emits a warning that the matching subsystem files should not be modified. This might help avoid receiving patches that will be dropped. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches --- MAINTAINERS | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS index 3d53de49e736..9edf41e051e0 100644 --- a/MAINTAINERS +++ b/MAINTAINERS @@ -7350,7 +7350,7 @@ F: drivers/tty/ipwireless/ IPX NETWORK LAYER L: netdev@vger.kernel.org -S: Odd fixes +S: Obsolete F: include/uapi/linux/ipx.h F: drivers/staging/ipx/ @@ -7359,7 +7359,7 @@ M: Samuel Ortiz L: irda-users@lists.sourceforge.net (subscribers-only) L: netdev@vger.kernel.org W: http://irda.sourceforge.net/ -S: Maintained +S: Obsolete T: git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sameo/irda-2.6.git F: Documentation/networking/irda.txt F: drivers/staging/irda/ @@ -9439,7 +9439,7 @@ F: drivers/net/ethernet/natsemi/natsemi.c NCP FILESYSTEM M: Petr Vandrovec -S: Odd Fixes +S: Obsolete F: drivers/staging/ncpfs/ NCR 5380 SCSI DRIVERS