Re: [RFC: 2.6 patch] MAINTAINERS: remove HPET entries

[Vojtech Pavlik]

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 12:31:41AM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 11:39:44PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > On Fri, 4 Apr 2008, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > > Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > > > 1) drivers/char/hpet.c
> > > >    include/linux/hpet.h
> > > > 
> > > >    due to the revert of the HPET irq assignemt, which was only affects x86.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Related to this...  check out jgarzik/misc-2.6.git#irq-cleanups and
> > > #irq-remove for my set of patches that remove the 'irq' argument from all irq
> > > handlers.
> > > 
> > > I have a couple cleanup patches for HPET that should go in prior to the big
> > > "remove irq argument" massive change (even if people don't want to remove the
> > > 'irq' argument ultimately, the cleanup is still useful)
> > > 
> > > Who is the HPET maintainer these days, if anyone?
> > 
> > Dunno. It usually ends up in one of my git sinks :(
> 
> So what about the patch below to avoid patches ending up at the wrong 
> people?

Sure, go ahead, now that there is no x86-64 arch, my entry doesn't even
make sense.

 
> We had 4 different MAINTAINERS entries for HPET, but effectively Thomas 
> currently is the maintainer.
> 
> Remove these entries - the already existing entry for X86 should be 
> better for handling to.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@xxxxxxxxxx>

Signed-off-by: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@xxxxxxx>

> 
> ---
> 
>  MAINTAINERS |   20 --------------------
>  1 file changed, 20 deletions(-)
> 
> 4e4d08631d04846823443559dce6feaab4ce46f3 diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index 45b86ab..b0c075a 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -1840,26 +1840,6 @@ P:	Carlos Corbacho
>  M:	carlos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>  S:	Odd Fixes
>  
> -HPET:	High Precision Event Timers driver (hpet.c)
> -P:	Clemens Ladisch
> -M:	clemens@xxxxxxxxxx
> -S:	Maintained
> -
> -HPET:	i386
> -P:	Venkatesh Pallipadi (Venki)
> -M:	venkatesh.pallipadi@xxxxxxxxx
> -S:	Maintained
> -
> -HPET:	x86_64
> -P:	Vojtech Pavlik
> -M:	vojtech@xxxxxxx
> -S:	Maintained
> -
> -HPET:	ACPI hpet.c
> -P:	Bob Picco
> -M:	bob.picco@xxxxxx
> -S:	Maintained
> -
>  HPFS FILESYSTEM
>  P:	Mikulas Patocka
>  M:	mikulas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 

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Vojtech Pavlik
Director SuSE Labs
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