netdev - Re: [PATCH 0/4] irda: move it to drivers/staging so we can delete it

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Message-ID: <1503875716.12569.54.camel@perches.com>
Date:   Sun, 27 Aug 2017 16:15:16 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        irda-users <irda-users@...ts.sourceforge.net>
Cc:     davem@...emloft.net, samuel@...tiz.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] irda: move it to drivers/staging so we can delete it

On Sun, 2017-08-27 at 18:53 +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 27, 2017 at 09:19:19AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Sun, 2017-08-27 at 18:13 +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > On Sun, Aug 27, 2017 at 08:35:43AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > > > On Sun, 2017-08-27 at 17:03 +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > > > The IRDA code has long been obsolete and broken.  So, to keep people
> > > > > from trying to use it, and to prevent people from having to maintain it,
> > > > > let's move it to drivers/staging/ so that we can delete it entirely from
> > > > > the kernel in a few releases.
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > MAINTAINERS should be updated as well.
> > > > 
> > > > It'd probably be nice to try to get an email to
> > > > the irda mailing list too if it still works.
> > > 
> > > As get_maintainer.pl didn't show it, odds are it doesn't...
> > 
> > get_maintainer doesn't show it because it's subscriber-only.
> > If you want get_maintainer to show it, add -s
> > 
> > $ ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl  -s -f net/irda/
> > Samuel Ortiz <samuel@...tiz.org> (maintainer:IRDA SUBSYSTEM)
> > "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net> (maintainer:NETWORKING [GENERAL])
> > irda-users@...ts.sourceforge.net (subscriber list:IRDA SUBSYSTEM)
> > netdev@...r.kernel.org (open list:IRDA SUBSYSTEM)
> > linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org (open list)
> 
> Sorry, am not going to subscribe to a random list just to send patches
> that delete the subsystem :)

Then you do a disservice to those that actually might
be using that subsystem.