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From:   "Fabio M. De Francesco" <fmdefrancesco@gmail.com>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: Remove the drivers for the Unisys s-Par
Date:   Wed, 13 Apr 2022 09:35:53 +0200
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On mercoled? 13 aprile 2022 08:52:47 CEST Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> 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...)

Yes, this is a good idea. I'll submit a v2 and add two "Cc:" lines, one to 
David Kershner and the other to the "sparmaintainer" list at unisys.com.

> 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!

I can and will do exactly as you just suggested, but only after April 22nd 
(unless others want to do these tasks sooner, and in that case they are 
welcome :)).

Thanks,

Fabio M. De Francesco