[PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Mark some staging directories as "Obsolete"

[PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Mark some staging directories as "Obsolete"

[Joe Perches]

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 <joe@perches.com>
---
 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 <samuel@sortiz.org>
 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 <petr@vandrovec.name>
-S:	Odd Fixes
+S:	Obsolete
 F:	drivers/staging/ncpfs/
 
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Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Mark some staging directories as "Obsolete"

[Greg KH]

On Tue, Jan 09, 2018 at 11:33:56AM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> 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 <joe@perches.com>

Ah nice, I didn't know about this, I'll go queue this up, thanks.

greg k-h