Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2017 18:13:07 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: davem@davemloft.net, samuel@sortiz.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] irda: move it to drivers/staging so we can delete it
Message-ID: <20170827161307.GA3528@kroah.com>
References: <20170827150334.32495-1-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
 <1503848143.12569.48.camel@perches.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
In-Reply-To: <1503848143.12569.48.camel@perches.com>
User-Agent: Mutt/1.8.3 (2017-05-23)
Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
Content-Length: 590
Lines: 13

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...