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Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2020 08:36:56 -0500 From: Corey Minyard <minyard@....org> To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.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 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> > > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS > index d6b9445649e5..a6f0a3ec0047 100644 > --- a/MAINTAINERS > +++ b/MAINTAINERS > @@ -4101,6 +4101,11 @@ T: git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc.git > F: drivers/char/ > F: drivers/misc/ > F: include/linux/miscdevice.h > +X: drivers/char/agp/ > +X: drivers/char/hw_random/ > +X: drivers/char/ipmi/ > +X: drivers/char/random.c > +X: drivers/char/tpm/ > > CHECKPATCH > M: Andy Whitcroft <apw@...onical.com>
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