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Date:   Tue, 12 Apr 2022 14:02:18 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To:     "Fabio M. De Francesco" <fmdefrancesco@gmail.com>
Cc:     Liu Junqi <liujunqi@pku.edu.cn>,
        Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>,
        "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>,
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        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
        Colin Ian King <colin.king@intel.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] MAINTAINERS: Remove D. Kershner from Unisys S-PAR
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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 <fmdefrancesco@gmail.com>
> > > ---
> > > 
> > > 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 <david.kershner@unisys.com>
> > >  L:	sparmaintainer@unisys.com (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