Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 15:13:40 +0200
From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
To: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>, "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@gmail.com>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Subject: Re: Bad addresses in MAINTAINERS
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On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 07:46:53PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 11:21 +0900, Paul Mundt wrote:
> > I also haven't had one of these devices in years, though I never got
> > around to updating MAINTAINERS. Perhaps this should be orphaned?
> 
> IMS TWINTURBO FRAMEBUFFER DRIVER
> L:	linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net (subscribers-only)
> S:	Orphan
> F:	drivers/video/imsttfb.c

I don't see any value in such entries:

In several areas of the kernel drivers without a driver maintainer are 
the common case, and e.g. in this case the susbsystem entry for 
drivers/video/ should already cover it.

cu
Adrian

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