linux-kernel - Re: Bad addresses in MAINTAINERS

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Message-ID: <20070814131340.GO18945@stusta.de>
Date:	Tue, 14 Aug 2007 15:13:40 +0200
From:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>
To:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Cc:	Paul Mundt <lethal@...ux-sh.org>,
	"Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Dave Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>
Subject: Re: Bad addresses in MAINTAINERS

On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 07:46:53PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 11:21 +0900, Paul Mundt wrote:
> > I also haven't had one of these devices in years, though I never got
> > around to updating MAINTAINERS. Perhaps this should be orphaned?
> 
> IMS TWINTURBO FRAMEBUFFER DRIVER
> L:	linux-fbdev-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net (subscribers-only)
> S:	Orphan
> F:	drivers/video/imsttfb.c

I don't see any value in such entries:

In several areas of the kernel drivers without a driver maintainer are 
the common case, and e.g. in this case the susbsystem entry for 
drivers/video/ should already cover it.

cu
Adrian

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