linux-kernel - [RFC: 2.6 patch] MAINTAINERS: remove HPET entries

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Date:	Tue, 22 Apr 2008 00:31:41 +0300
From:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>
To:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, clemens@...isch.de,
	venkatesh.pallipadi@...el.com, vojtech@...e.cz, bob.picco@...com
Cc:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Subject: [RFC: 2.6 patch] MAINTAINERS: remove HPET entries

On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 11:39:44PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Apr 2008, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > > 1) drivers/char/hpet.c
> > >    include/linux/hpet.h
> > > 
> > >    due to the revert of the HPET irq assignemt, which was only affects x86.
> > 
> > 
> > Related to this...  check out jgarzik/misc-2.6.git#irq-cleanups and
> > #irq-remove for my set of patches that remove the 'irq' argument from all irq
> > handlers.
> > 
> > I have a couple cleanup patches for HPET that should go in prior to the big
> > "remove irq argument" massive change (even if people don't want to remove the
> > 'irq' argument ultimately, the cleanup is still useful)
> > 
> > Who is the HPET maintainer these days, if anyone?
> 
> Dunno. It usually ends up in one of my git sinks :(

So what about the patch below to avoid patches ending up at the wrong 
people?

> Thanks,
> 	tglx

cu
Adrian


<--  snip  -->


We had 4 different MAINTAINERS entries for HPET, but effectively Thomas 
currently is the maintainer.

Remove these entries - the already existing entry for X86 should be 
better for handling to.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>

---

 MAINTAINERS |   20 --------------------
 1 file changed, 20 deletions(-)

4e4d08631d04846823443559dce6feaab4ce46f3 diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 45b86ab..b0c075a 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -1840,26 +1840,6 @@ P:	Carlos Corbacho
 M:	carlos@...angeworlds.co.uk
 S:	Odd Fixes
 
-HPET:	High Precision Event Timers driver (hpet.c)
-P:	Clemens Ladisch
-M:	clemens@...isch.de
-S:	Maintained
-
-HPET:	i386
-P:	Venkatesh Pallipadi (Venki)
-M:	venkatesh.pallipadi@...el.com
-S:	Maintained
-
-HPET:	x86_64
-P:	Vojtech Pavlik
-M:	vojtech@...e.cz
-S:	Maintained
-
-HPET:	ACPI hpet.c
-P:	Bob Picco
-M:	bob.picco@...com
-S:	Maintained
-
 HPFS FILESYSTEM
 P:	Mikulas Patocka
 M:	mikulas@...ax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz

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