linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: exclude char maintainers from things they do not maintain

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Message-ID: <20200930162828.GA1672130@kroah.com>
Date:   Wed, 30 Sep 2020 18:28:28 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Corey Minyard <minyard@....org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: exclude char maintainers from things they
 do not maintain

On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 08:36:56AM -0500, Corey Minyard wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 02:10:07PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > There are a number of subdirectories and files in drivers/char/ that
> > have their own maintainers and developers and ways of getting patches to
> > Linus.  This includes random.c, IPMI, hardware random drivers, TPM
> > drivers, and agp drivers.  Instead of sending those patches to Arnd and
> > myself, who can't do anything with them, send them to the proper
> > developers instead.
> > 
> > Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
> 
> Yes, please do.  No reason for you to get all the noise from these.
> 
> Acked-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@...sta.com>

Thanks!

greg k-h