Re: [PATCH] staging: Remove the drivers for the Unisys s-Par

[Alison Schofield]

On Wed, Apr 13, 2022 at 11:57:20AM -0700, Fabio M. De Francesco wrote:
> On mercoled? 13 aprile 2022 17:38:24 CEST Alison Schofield wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 13, 2022 at 09:35:53AM +0200, Fabio M. De Francesco wrote:
> > > On mercoled? 13 aprile 2022 08:52:47 CEST Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Apr 12, 2022 at 11:59:01PM +0200, Fabio M. De Francesco 
> wrote:
> > > > > The Unisys sub-tree contains three drivers for the "Unisys Secure 
> > > Partition"
> > > > > (s-Par(R)): visorhba, visorinput, visornic.
> > > > > 
> > > > > They have no maintainers, in fact the only one that is listed in 
> > > MAINTAINERS
> > > > > has an unreacheable email address. During 2021 and 2022 several 
> patches 
> > > have
> > > > > been submitted to these drivers but nobody at Unisys cared of 
> reviewing 
> > > the
> > > > > changes. Probably, also the "sparmaintainer" internal list of 
> > > unisys.com is
> > > > > not anymore read by interested Unisys' engineers.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Therefore, remove the ./unisys subdirectory of staging and delete 
> the 
> > > related
> > > > > entries in the MAINTAINERS, Kconfig, Makefile files.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Suggested-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > > Signed-off-by: Fabio M. De Francesco <fmdefrancesco@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > > > ---
> > > > >  MAINTAINERS                                   |    8 -
> > > > 
> > > > You forgot to at least cc: the people/list on the MAINTAINERS entry 
> that
> > > > you are removing here, to give them a hint that this is happening in
> > > > case they want to speak up here (and to give us the ability to point 
> to
> > > > that years later when they complain they were never notified...)
> > > 
> > > Yes, this is a good idea. I'll submit a v2 and add two "Cc:" lines, one 
> to 
> > > David Kershner and the other to the "sparmaintainer" list at 
> unisys.com.
> > 
> > There is another contact in the TODO file (last updated 2015 though ;))
> > Ken Cox <jkc@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Hi Alison, Greg,
> 
> Thank you very much for noticing that other contact :) 
> 
> In the last 12 months I have sent several patches for Unisys s-Par drivers 
> but I never noticed that other contact simply because I only ever use 
> scripts / get_maintainer.pl to find out who and to which lists to send my 
> works.
> 
> @Greg: 
> 
> Do you think that we should care of a contact that is no more active since 
> 2015 and resubmit a v3 with one more "Cc:" line? I have no problems to 
> resubmit, I just want to be sure that this is the right thing to do.

I didn't see a v2, so confused about a v3. You could simply do a group
reply and add the contact, that'll put a trail in lore. Not my call.
Guessing Greg has a protocol for such removals. 

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Fabio M. De Francesco
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