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Date:	Wed, 18 Jul 2012 13:09:04 +0200
From:	Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@...il.com>
To:	"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
Cc:	linux-next <linux-next@...r.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>
Subject: linux-next: Trees and MAINTAINERS of random drivers?

Hi,

while digging into an issue with the random driver [0] yesterday, I
checked today the "Next/Trees" and random driver related informations
in "MAINTAINERS" files.
...and have some questions.

David's random tree is listed in linux-next [1]:

26 dwmw2           git
git://git.infradead.org/users/dwmw2/random-2.6.git#master

But [2] shows me that there were no activities in this tree for about 3 years.
Is that still valid and/or should that tree be dropped?
[ Sorry, for nitpicking but suffix "-2.6" should simply die in GIT
repo and branch names after introduction of upstream's linux.git. ]

[3] lists Ted as new random driver maintainer, but in [4] I found Matt
as maintainer:

5656 RANDOM NUMBER DRIVER
5657 M:      Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>
5658 S:      Maintained
5659 F:      drivers/char/random.c

I do not think that this is still correct and furthermore in Ted's
random.git#dev tree I see commits changing "drivers/char/random.c"
file.
So, that above block should IMHO be dropped and "F:
drivers/char/random.c" added to [6]?

Just noticed while looking into linux-next and the recent random
revival from Ted.

Thanks to old and new random maintainers for their great work!

Kind Regards,
- Sedat -

[0] http://marc.info/?l=linux-next&m=134252508224850&w=2
[1] http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git;a=blob;f=Next/Trees;hb=HEAD#l26
[2] http://git.infradead.org/users/dwmw2/random-2.6.git
[3] http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git;a=commitdiff;h=ec1b70506a9ec3be8191ddb2f4de9ac066e6a431
[4] http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git;a=blob;f=MAINTAINERS;hb=HEAD#l5656
[5] http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/tytso/random.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/dev
[6] http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git;a=blob;f=MAINTAINERS;hb=HEAD#l3170
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