2008-10-01 08:55:27

by Rodolfo Giometti

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Subject: Re: About the maintainer of "MOUSE AND MISC DEVICES"

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 03:49:08PM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:

> Ack. And there is no MISC maintainer, so Jiri's patch to remove the
> entire entry makes sense IMO.

However misc devices exist, so no maintaner for them? I'd like to
propose a misc device and I'd like to have some suggestions about it,
so should I send my questions to the LKML?

Ciao,

Rodolfo

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2008-10-01 09:04:57

by Jiri Kosina

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Subject: Re: About the maintainer of "MOUSE AND MISC DEVICES"

On Wed, 1 Oct 2008, Rodolfo Giometti wrote:

> > Ack. And there is no MISC maintainer, so Jiri's patch to remove the
> > entire entry makes sense IMO.
> However misc devices exist, so no maintaner for them? I'd like to
> propose a misc device and I'd like to have some suggestions about it,
> so should I send my questions to the LKML?

If you have a driver that doesn't fit under any particular subsystem, it
therefore probably belongs into drivers/misc, yes.

Send them to LKML and CC Andrew Morton and possibly also Greg KH.

Thanks,

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