Re: [PATCH v2] staging: Remove the drivers for the Unisys s-Par

From: Fabio M. De Francesco
Date: Thu Apr 14 2022 - 04:42:03 EST


On gioved? 14 aprile 2022 09:14:29 CEST Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 13, 2022 at 10:01:11AM +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 and delete the relevant
entries
> > in the MAINTAINERS, Kconfig, Makefile files.
> >
> > Cc: David Kershner <david.kershner@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: sparmaintainer@xxxxxxxxxx
> > Suggested-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Fabio M. De Francesco <fmdefrancesco@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >
> > v1->v2: Add two "Cc:" lines, one to David Kershner and the second to
the
> > "sparmaintainer" list at unisys.com, as requested by Greg Kroah-
Hartman.
> >
> > MAINTAINERS | 8 -
> > drivers/staging/Kconfig | 2 -
> > drivers/staging/Makefile | 1 -
> > .../ABI/sysfs-platform-visorchipset | 89 -
> > .../staging/unisys/Documentation/overview.txt | 337 ---
> > drivers/staging/unisys/Kconfig | 16 -
> > drivers/staging/unisys/MAINTAINERS | 5 -
> > drivers/staging/unisys/Makefile | 7 -
> > drivers/staging/unisys/TODO | 16 -
> > drivers/staging/unisys/include/iochannel.h | 571 -----
> > drivers/staging/unisys/visorhba/Kconfig | 15 -
> > drivers/staging/unisys/visorhba/Makefile | 10 -
> > .../staging/unisys/visorhba/visorhba_main.c | 1142 ---------
> > drivers/staging/unisys/visorinput/Kconfig | 16 -
> > drivers/staging/unisys/visorinput/Makefile | 7 -
> > .../staging/unisys/visorinput/visorinput.c | 788 ------
> > drivers/staging/unisys/visornic/Kconfig | 16 -
> > drivers/staging/unisys/visornic/Makefile | 10 -
> > .../staging/unisys/visornic/visornic_main.c | 2131 -----------------
>
>
>
> > 19 files changed, 5187 deletions(-)
> > delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/unisys/Documentation/ABI/sysfs-
platform-visorchipset
> > delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/unisys/Documentation/overview.txt
> > delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/unisys/Kconfig
> > delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/unisys/MAINTAINERS
> > delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/unisys/Makefile
> > delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/unisys/TODO
> > delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/unisys/include/iochannel.h
> > delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/unisys/visorhba/Kconfig
> > delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/unisys/visorhba/Makefile
> > delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/unisys/visorhba/visorhba_main.c
> > delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/unisys/visorinput/Kconfig
> > delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/unisys/visorinput/Makefile
> > delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/unisys/visorinput/visorinput.c
> > delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/unisys/visornic/Kconfig
> > delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/unisys/visornic/Makefile
> > delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/unisys/visornic/visornic_main.c
> >
> > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> > index 3ed62dcd144e..a62da6d0f943 100644
> > --- a/MAINTAINERS
> > +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> > @@ -20183,14 +20183,6 @@ F: drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c
> > 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)
> > -S: Supported
> > -F: drivers/staging/unisys/
> > -F: drivers/visorbus/
>
> You forgot to delete the files in this directory as well :(
>
Sorry, that's worse than just being forgetful. I did not carefully read the
lines I deleted in MAINTAINERS :(

I will post a v3 soon. In the meantime, I'll also add between the lines
"Cc:" that other person that Alison found in drivers/staging/unisys/TODO.

Thanks,

Fabio M. De Francesco