Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: fix entry of char/misc

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 10:49:24PM +0530, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 07:48:05AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Tue, 2015-10-13 at 15:34 +0530, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> > > Greg and Arnd are supporter of char and misc drivers. While using
> > > getmaintainer.pl on any patch or any file in these directories their
> > > names were never displayed.
> > []
> > > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> > []
> > >  M:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >  T:	git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc.git
> > >  S:	Supported
> > > -F:	drivers/char/*
> > > -F:	drivers/misc/*
> > > +F:	drivers/char/
> > > +F:	drivers/misc/
> > >  F:	include/linux/miscdevice.h
> > 
> > Do Greg and Arnd really want to be supporting all
> > subsystems below drivers/char like agp and xillybus?
> 
> I don't know that. Maybe Greg and Arnd can say.
> But wasn't that the intention when char/* and misc/* was mentioned here?

Kind of, I'm here to pick up the portions of this tree that do not have
a maintainer already (random.c is one example.)

thanks,

greg k-h
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