linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] misc: remove CONFIG_MISC

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Message-ID: <4E763C3C.3050909@xenotime.net>
Date:	Sun, 18 Sep 2011 11:45:16 -0700
From:	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>
To:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
CC:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, Jean Delvare <khali@...ux-fr.org>,
	Luciano Coelho <coelho@...com>, matti.j.aaltonen@...ia.com,
	johannes@...solutions.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	sameo@...ux.intel.com, mchehab@...radead.org,
	linux-media@...r.kernel.org, linux-omap@...r.kernel.org,
	Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com>,
	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] misc: remove CONFIG_MISC_DEVICES

On 09/18/2011 08:28 AM, Greg KH wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 08:11:45AM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>> On 09/05/2011 07:19 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>>> I think it would simply be more consistent to have it enabled all
>>> the time. Well, even better would be to move the bulk of the misc
>>> drivers to a proper location sorted by their subsystems. A lot of them
>>> should never have been merged in their current state IMHO.
>>
>>
>> If it's clear where they belong, then sure, they should be somewhere
>> other than drivers/misc/, but I don't see that it's clear for several
>> of them.
>>
>>
>>> I think I should finally do what has been  talked about a few times and
>>> formally become the maintainer of drivers/char and drivers/misc ;-)
>>>
>>> The problem is that I'm not actually a good maintainer, but maybe it's
>>> better to just have someone instead of falling back to Andrew or
>>> some random subsystem maintainer to send any patches for drivers/misc.
>>
>> We have fallbacks to Andrew and/or GregKH currently, but GregKH is not
>> consistent or timely with applying drivers/misc/ patches.  It deserves better.
>> [added him to Cc: list]
> 
> I do try to handle patches sent to me for misc/ in time for the
> different merge windows as that directory contains drivers that have
> moved out of the staging/ directory.
> 
> But yes, I'm not the overall drivers/misc/ maintainer, do we really need
> one?  If so, I can easily start maintaining a development tree for it to
> keep it separate for the different driver authors to send me stuff and
> start tracking it more "for real" if Arnd doesn't want to do it.

We need for the patches to be applied in a timely manner.
Sometimes when there is no real maintainer, that does not happen.

-- 
~Randy
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