linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] MAINTAINERS: Remove D. Kershner from Unisys S-PAR maintainers

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Date:   Tue, 12 Apr 2022 12:41:27 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     "Fabio M. De Francesco" <fmdefrancesco@...il.com>
Cc:     Liu Junqi <liujunqi@....edu.cn>,
        Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@....org>,
        "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
        "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@...nel.org>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Colin Ian King <colin.king@...el.com>,
        sparmaintainer@...sys.com, linux-staging@...ts.linux.dev,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] MAINTAINERS: Remove D. Kershner from Unisys S-PAR
 maintainers

On Tue, Apr 12, 2022 at 12:36:29PM +0200, Fabio M. De Francesco wrote:
> The email address of David Kershner is no more reachable. Remove his
> entry from the MAINTAINERS file for UNISYS S-PAR DRIVERS and change
> the status to "Orphan".
> 
> Signed-off-by: Fabio M. De Francesco <fmdefrancesco@...il.com>
> ---
> 
> v1->v2: Change also the status of the entry to "Orphan" and rework the
> commit message. (Thanks to Greg Kroah-Hartman).
> 
>  MAINTAINERS | 3 +--
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index 3ed62dcd144e..9283c63565b3 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -20184,9 +20184,8 @@ F:	include/linux/cdrom.h
>  F:	include/uapi/linux/cdrom.h
>  
>  UNISYS S-PAR DRIVERS
> -M:	David Kershner <david.kershner@...sys.com>
>  L:	sparmaintainer@...sys.com (Unisys internal)

Again, please drop this "list" as it obviously is not going to anyone.

And really, this whole code should be removed, no one seems to be using
it, and if they are, we can easily revert the removal and mark them as
the maintainer.

thanks,

greg k-h