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

[Corey Minyard]

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>

> 
> 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>