On Sun, Aug 27, 2017 at 09:19:19AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > On Sun, 2017-08-27 at 18:13 +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > 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... > > get_maintainer doesn't show it because it's subscriber-only. > If you want get_maintainer to show it, add -s > > $ ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl -s -f net/irda/ > Samuel Ortiz <sam...@sortiz.org> (maintainer:IRDA SUBSYSTEM) > "David S. Miller" <da...@davemloft.net> (maintainer:NETWORKING [GENERAL]) > irda-us...@lists.sourceforge.net (subscriber list:IRDA SUBSYSTEM) > net...@vger.kernel.org (open list:IRDA SUBSYSTEM) > linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (open list)
Sorry, am not going to subscribe to a random list just to send patches that delete the subsystem :) netdev@ should be all that is needed here anyway... thanks, greg k-h
