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

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Message-ID: <CAK8P3a3FX=uuqG6KW7b4Zsh0xiCea_6B2sE3DChQx-e8EUF43g@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 30 Sep 2020 15:19:09 +0200
From:   Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: exclude char maintainers from things they do
 not maintain

On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 2:10 PM Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> 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>

Good idea,

Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>