[PATCH] MAINTAINERS: exclude char maintainers from things they do not maintain

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Wed Sep 30 2020 - 08:10:06 EST


There are a number of subdirectories and files in drivers/char/ that
have their own maintainers and developers and ways of getting patches to
Linus. This includes random.c, IPMI, hardware random drivers, TPM
drivers, and agp drivers. Instead of sending those patches to Arnd and
myself, who can't do anything with them, send them to the proper
developers instead.

Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index d6b9445649e5..a6f0a3ec0047 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -4101,6 +4101,11 @@ T: git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc.git
F: drivers/char/
F: drivers/misc/
F: include/linux/miscdevice.h
+X: drivers/char/agp/
+X: drivers/char/hw_random/
+X: drivers/char/ipmi/
+X: drivers/char/random.c
+X: drivers/char/tpm/

CHECKPATCH
M: Andy Whitcroft <apw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>