From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] irda: move it to drivers/staging so we can delete it Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2017 18:13:07 +0200 Message-ID: <20170827161307.GA3528@kroah.com> References: <20170827150334.32495-1-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> <1503848143.12569.48.camel@perches.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, samuel@sortiz.org, davem@davemloft.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: Joe Perches Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1503848143.12569.48.camel@perches.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: driverdev-devel-bounces@linuxdriverproject.org Sender: "devel" List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Sun, Aug 27, 2017 at 08:35:43AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > On Sun, 2017-08-27 at 17:03 +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > The IRDA code has long been obsolete and broken. So, to keep people > > from trying to use it, and to prevent people from having to maintain it, > > let's move it to drivers/staging/ so that we can delete it entirely from > > the kernel in a few releases. > > MAINTAINERS should be updated as well. > > It'd probably be nice to try to get an email to > the irda mailing list too if it still works. As get_maintainer.pl didn't show it, odds are it doesn't...