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Date:   Wed, 13 Apr 2022 08:52:47 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To:     "Fabio M. De Francesco" <fmdefrancesco@gmail.com>
Cc:     linux-staging@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: Remove the drivers for the Unisys s-Par
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On Tue, Apr 12, 2022 at 11:59:01PM +0200, Fabio M. De Francesco wrote:
> The Unisys sub-tree contains three drivers for the "Unisys Secure Partition"
> (s-Par(R)): visorhba, visorinput, visornic.
> 
> They have no maintainers, in fact the only one that is listed in MAINTAINERS
> has an unreacheable email address. During 2021 and 2022 several patches have
> been submitted to these drivers but nobody at Unisys cared of reviewing the
> changes. Probably, also the "sparmaintainer" internal list of unisys.com is
> not anymore read by interested Unisys' engineers.
> 
> Therefore, remove the ./unisys subdirectory of staging and delete the related
> entries in the MAINTAINERS, Kconfig, Makefile files.
> 
> Suggested-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> Signed-off-by: Fabio M. De Francesco <fmdefrancesco@gmail.com>
> ---
>  MAINTAINERS                                   |    8 -

You forgot to at least cc: the people/list on the MAINTAINERS entry that
you are removing here, to give them a hint that this is happening in
case they want to speak up here (and to give us the ability to point to
that years later when they complain they were never notified...)

Also, if you are in the "delete code" mood, I think drivers/staging/vme/
and drivers/vme/ can probably also be deleted given that the maintainer
for that has moved on to other jobs.  Ask them and see!

thanks,

greg k-h