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

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Wed Sep 30 2020 - 12:28:27 EST


On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 08:36:56AM -0500, Corey Minyard wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 02:10:07PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman 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>
>
> Yes, please do. No reason for you to get all the noise from these.
>
> Acked-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks!

greg k-h