2021-04-28 13:48:01

by Anupama K Patil

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Subject: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: mark isapnp as obsolete

isapnp code is very old and according to this link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legacy_Plug_and_Play#Specifications
from Wikipedia, even Windows Vista disabled ISA PnP by default.

This change is in follow up to
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210422180322.7wlyg63kv3n2k6id@ubuntu/T/#u
and https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210424194301.jmsqpycvsm7izbk3@ubuntu/T/#u

Suggested-by: B K Karthik <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Anupama K Patil <[email protected]>
---
MAINTAINERS | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 04e7de8c95be..215e05d93c60 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -9534,7 +9534,7 @@ F: drivers/media/radio/radio-isa*

ISAPNP
M: Jaroslav Kysela <[email protected]>
-S: Maintained
+S: Obsolete
F: Documentation/driver-api/isapnp.rst
F: drivers/pnp/isapnp/
F: include/linux/isapnp.h
--
2.25.1


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2021-04-29 15:27:29

by Greg Kroah-Hartman

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Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: mark isapnp as obsolete

On Wed, Apr 28, 2021 at 04:35:36PM +0530, Anupama K Patil wrote:
> isapnp code is very old and according to this link
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legacy_Plug_and_Play#Specifications
> from Wikipedia, even Windows Vista disabled ISA PnP by default.
>
> This change is in follow up to
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210422180322.7wlyg63kv3n2k6id@ubuntu/T/#u
> and https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210424194301.jmsqpycvsm7izbk3@ubuntu/T/#u
>
> Suggested-by: B K Karthik <[email protected]>

This person should not have suggested this, sorry if you were lead
astray. The maintainer is in charge of this type of thing, it's a bit
rude to try to "force" someone's hand by doing this. Be careful.

thanks,

greg k-h

2021-04-29 15:50:05

by B K Karthik

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Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: mark isapnp as obsolete

On 21/04/29 05:25PM, Greg KH wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 28, 2021 at 04:35:36PM +0530, Anupama K Patil wrote:
> > isapnp code is very old and according to this link
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legacy_Plug_and_Play#Specifications
> > from Wikipedia, even Windows Vista disabled ISA PnP by default.
> >
> > This change is in follow up to
> > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210422180322.7wlyg63kv3n2k6id@ubuntu/T/#u
> > and https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210424194301.jmsqpycvsm7izbk3@ubuntu/T/#u
> >
> > Suggested-by: B K Karthik <[email protected]>
>
> This person should not have suggested this, sorry if you were lead
> astray. The maintainer is in charge of this type of thing, it's a bit
> rude to try to "force" someone's hand by doing this. Be careful.

Yes I shouldn't have suggested this change. Sorry for that!
I won't make such a mistake again.

Sorry for wasting your valuable time to everyone cc'ed in this thread.

Karthik


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