From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Krzysztof Halasa Subject: Re: MAINTAINERS drivers/net cleanups? Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2009 12:55:50 +0200 Message-ID: References: <1255729936.2267.179.camel@Joe-Laptop.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: netdev To: Joe Perches Return-path: Received: from khc.piap.pl ([195.187.100.11]:53182 "EHLO khc.piap.pl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752738AbZJQKzt (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Oct 2009 06:55:49 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1255729936.2267.179.camel@Joe-Laptop.home> (Joe Perches's message of "Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:52:15 -0700") Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Joe Perches writes: > There are many people described as MAINTAINERS for > these files that have not had a single sign-off or > commit in git history. > > That's 4+ years. > > Here are the files, nominal maintainers, and the > sections of MAINTAINERS that could be dropped. > > Should these individuals be removed from MAINTAINERS > and added to CREDITS if not already there? I'm not sure we can do that, esp. with the old ISA drivers. It may just happen that the drivers are as complete as possible, and occasional patches resulting from core changes don't necessarily have to be signed-off-by the maintainer. I don't think we should remove the MAINTAINERS entries in such cases blindly, at least not before the driver itself is removed. How long ago anyone of us used those EExpress, WD8003 or NE2000? Not this Millennium certainly? :-) BTW CREDITS is opt-in, isn't it? -- Krzysztof Halasa