linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ARM: MAINTAINERS: drop empty entries for removed boards

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Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2024 10:25:32 +0100
From: "Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@...db.de>
To: "Krzysztof Kozlowski" <krzysztof.kozlowski@...aro.org>,
 linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
 arm <arm@...nel.org>, soc@...nel.org, "Olof Johansson" <olof@...om.net>
Cc: "Lennert Buytenhek" <kernel@...tstofly.org>,
 "Steve Sakoman" <sakoman@...il.com>,
 "Mark F . Brown" <mark.brown314@...il.com>,
 "Robert Jarzmik" <robert.jarzmik@...e.fr>,
 "Florian Fainelli" <florian@...nwrt.org>,
 "Simtec Linux Team" <linux@...tec.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ARM: MAINTAINERS: drop empty entries for removed boards

On Mon, Dec 18, 2023, at 15:39, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> On 18/12/2023 15:21, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>> On Mon, Dec 18, 2023, at 13:45, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
>> 
>> drivers/mmc/host/pxamci.c and drivers/rtc/rtc-pxa.c
>> are still in use.
>
> MMCI does not have maintainer.
>
> For the RTC, I guess the intention of 57f63bc8fe79 ("rtc: update
> maintainership of pxa rtc driver") was to maintain the driver.
>
> The actual problem is that all of these entries (and R-321X below) come
> from the times people were not putting any file paths to MAINTAINERS.
> They stayed like this for 15-17 years, thus being effectively noop.
>
> Let's maybe wait till any of Cc-ed people respond and confirm they want
> to grow the maintainer entry to cover the files? If they don't come, I
> propose to remove them.

Nobody else replied now, so for the moment, I applied a partial
patch removing the EDB9315A, TS7250, TETON and CATS entries that
are for files that were removed or are in the process.

For the other ones, I would still prefer to just list the files.

   Arnd