linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/2] MAINTAINERS: remove historic section DEVICE NUMBER REGISTRY

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-Id: <20230307144000.29539-2-lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Date:   Tue,  7 Mar 2023 15:39:59 +0100
From:   Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@...il.com>
To:     Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        device@...ana.org, unicode@...ana.org,
        "H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:     kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] MAINTAINERS: remove historic section DEVICE NUMBER REGISTRY

As described in Documentation/admin-guide/devices.rst, the device number
registry (or linux device list) is at Documentation/admin-guide/devices.txt
and no longer maintained at lanana.org.

The devices.txt file is basically community-maintained, and there is no
other dedicated maintainer or contact for that file nowadays.

Remove the historic section DEVICE NUMBER REGISTRY in MAINTAINERS.

Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@...il.com>
---
Note: According to the get_maintainer script, Jonathan Corbet would be the
maintainer of those files, but probably everyone knows that the formal
role is really among various kernel developers, and not with Jon as
a benevolent dictator.

Jon, if that is fine for you, we just keep that with MAINTAINERS as-is.
Otherwise, I can send a specific change to exclude those two files,
Documentation/admin-guide/devices.{rst|txt} from the DOCUMENTATION
section in MAINTAINERS, but I do not see that critical, as only very little
changes happen to those files nowadays.

 MAINTAINERS | 5 -----
 1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 631fac6ab555..5d8f46f35aa4 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -5940,11 +5940,6 @@ F:	drivers/devfreq/event/
 F:	include/dt-bindings/pmu/exynos_ppmu.h
 F:	include/linux/devfreq-event.h

-DEVICE NUMBER REGISTRY
-M:	Torben Mathiasen <device@...ana.org>
-S:	Maintained
-W:	http://lanana.org/docs/device-list/index.html
-
 DEVICE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT HELPERS
 M:	Hans de Goede <hdegoede@...hat.com>
 R:	Matti Vaittinen <mazziesaccount@...il.com>
-- 
2.17.1