linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] USB: phy: fsl-usb: remove character device usage

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Date:   Thu, 2 Jul 2020 12:33:33 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Peter Chen <peter.chen@....com>
Cc:     "balbi@...nel.org" <balbi@...nel.org>,
        Ran Wang <ran.wang_1@....com>, Leo Li <leoyang.li@....com>,
        "linux-usb@...r.kernel.org" <linux-usb@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] USB: phy: fsl-usb: remove character device usage

On Thu, Jul 02, 2020 at 09:07:43AM +0000, Peter Chen wrote:
>  
> > 
> > No idea why this driver is using a char device node, statically allocated, with no
> > dynamic allocation or hook up with devtmpfs, along with a reserverd major number,
> > for "special" operations, not all of which ever were implemented.
> > 
> > So just rip it out, as no one must be using it because no modern system will ever
> > actually create the /dev/ node it needs.
> > 
> 
> Add related people from NXP.

If there are related people, MAINTAINERS should have reflected that :)