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

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Wed Sep 30 2020 - 09:20:24 EST


On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 2:10 PM Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 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>

Good idea,

Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>