linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] MAINTAINERS: Make cxl obsolete

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Message-ID: <cf03bfb4-0970-fe3a-062f-8c4e371a7afa@linux-m68k.org>
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2024 09:43:48 +1000 (AEST)
From: Finn Thain <fthain@...ux-m68k.org>
To: Michael Ellerman <michaele@....ibm.com>
cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@...roup.eu>, 
    Andrew Donnellan <ajd@...ux.ibm.com>, 
    "linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org" <linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org>, 
    "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, 
    "linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org" <linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org>, 
    "fbarrat@...ux.ibm.com" <fbarrat@...ux.ibm.com>, 
    "ukrishn@...ux.ibm.com" <ukrishn@...ux.ibm.com>, 
    "manoj@...ux.ibm.com" <manoj@...ux.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] MAINTAINERS: Make cxl obsolete


On Wed, 10 Apr 2024, Michael Ellerman wrote:

> >
> > Could we do something similar, write a message at boottime when the 
> > CXL driver gets probed ?
> 
> Yeah, I think so.
> 
> There's still the problem that people tend not to look at dmesg until 
> something breaks, but at least we can try and get their attention.
> 

People would get in the habit to look for that, if all maintainers adopted 
a convention such that a boot-time message would list every newly-orphaned 
driver in each release. Maybe the maintainer of the MAINTAINERS file could 
check that every newly orphaned driver got announced.