Re: [PATCH v2] MAINTAINERS: Remove D. Kershner from Unisys S-PAR maintainers

[Sergio Paracuellos]

Hi Fabio,

On Tue, Apr 12, 2022 at 1:08 PM Fabio M. De Francesco
<fmdefrancesco@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On marted? 12 aprile 2022 12:41:27 CEST Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 12, 2022 at 12:36:29PM +0200, Fabio M. De Francesco wrote:
> > > The email address of David Kershner is no more reachable. Remove his
> > > entry from the MAINTAINERS file for UNISYS S-PAR DRIVERS and change
> > > the status to "Orphan".
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Fabio M. De Francesco <fmdefrancesco@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > >
> > > v1->v2: Change also the status of the entry to "Orphan" and rework the
> > > commit message. (Thanks to Greg Kroah-Hartman).
> > >
> > >  MAINTAINERS | 3 +--
> > >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> > > index 3ed62dcd144e..9283c63565b3 100644
> > > --- a/MAINTAINERS
> > > +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> > > @@ -20184,9 +20184,8 @@ F:  include/linux/cdrom.h
> > >  F: include/uapi/linux/cdrom.h
> > >
> > >  UNISYS S-PAR DRIVERS
> > > -M: David Kershner <david.kershner@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > >  L: sparmaintainer@xxxxxxxxxx (Unisys internal)
> >
> > Again, please drop this "list" as it obviously is not going to anyone.
>
> OK, I'll also drop the "L:" line. I wasn't sure about it because I see
> that there are other entries marked as "Orphan" and the list is still
> there. But you are right: although the "sparmaintainer" list address is
> not bouncing, it looks like nobody care to read messages there.
>
> > And really, this whole code should be removed, no one seems to be using
> > it, and if they are, we can easily revert the removal and mark them as
> > the maintainer.
>
> 1) If I remove the entire drivers/staging/unisys/ I suppose that, in
> MAINTAINERS I should also remove the whole entry called "UNISYS S-PAR
> DRIVERS", not only the "L:" line.
>
> 2) Furthermore, I understand that I should also should change the relevant
> Kbuild files, otherwise all builds of staging would fail.

Correct.

>
> I'm sorry for asking but, as you probably recall, I have no prior experience
> with removing drivers from trees and with the Kbuild's infrastructure. I'll
> take some time to read how it works.

Check this patchset [0] I sent a bit time ago removing two drivers from staging,

Hope this helps.

Regards,
    Sergio Paracuellos

[0]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20211113192045.32153-4-sergio.paracuellos@xxxxxxxxx/T/
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> Are the two arguments above correct?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Fabio M. De Francesco
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