The email address of David Kershner is no more reachable. Remove his
entry from the MAINTAINERS file for UNISYS S-PAR DRIVERS and change
the status to "Orphan".
Signed-off-by: Fabio M. De Francesco <[email protected]>
---
v1->v2: Change also the status of the entry to "Orphan" and rework the
commit message. (Thanks to Greg Kroah-Hartman).
MAINTAINERS | 3 +--
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 3ed62dcd144e..9283c63565b3 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -20184,9 +20184,8 @@ F: include/linux/cdrom.h
F: include/uapi/linux/cdrom.h
UNISYS S-PAR DRIVERS
-M: David Kershner <[email protected]>
L: [email protected] (Unisys internal)
-S: Supported
+S: Orphan
F: drivers/staging/unisys/
F: drivers/visorbus/
F: include/linux/visorbus.h
--
2.34.1
On Tue, Apr 12, 2022 at 01:08:28PM +0200, Fabio M. De Francesco wrote:
> On marted? 12 aprile 2022 12:41:27 CEST Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 12, 2022 at 12:36:29PM +0200, Fabio M. De Francesco wrote:
> > > The email address of David Kershner is no more reachable. Remove his
> > > entry from the MAINTAINERS file for UNISYS S-PAR DRIVERS and change
> > > the status to "Orphan".
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Fabio M. De Francesco <[email protected]>
> > > ---
> > >
> > > v1->v2: Change also the status of the entry to "Orphan" and rework the
> > > commit message. (Thanks to Greg Kroah-Hartman).
> > >
> > > MAINTAINERS | 3 +--
> > > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> > > index 3ed62dcd144e..9283c63565b3 100644
> > > --- a/MAINTAINERS
> > > +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> > > @@ -20184,9 +20184,8 @@ F: include/linux/cdrom.h
> > > F: include/uapi/linux/cdrom.h
> > >
> > > UNISYS S-PAR DRIVERS
> > > -M: David Kershner <[email protected]>
> > > L: [email protected] (Unisys internal)
> >
> > Again, please drop this "list" as it obviously is not going to anyone.
>
> OK, I'll also drop the "L:" line. I wasn't sure about it because I see
> that there are other entries marked as "Orphan" and the list is still
> there. But you are right: although the "sparmaintainer" list address is
> not bouncing, it looks like nobody care to read messages there.
>
> > And really, this whole code should be removed, no one seems to be using
> > it, and if they are, we can easily revert the removal and mark them as
> > the maintainer.
>
> 1) If I remove the entire drivers/staging/unisys/ I suppose that, in
> MAINTAINERS I should also remove the whole entry called "UNISYS S-PAR
> DRIVERS", not only the "L:" line.
Yes, _AND_ you need to also remove all files that are listed for that
entry.
> 2) Furthermore, I understand that I should also should change the relevant
> Kbuild files, otherwise all builds of staging would fail.
Yes.
thanks,
greg k-h