[PATCH 1/2] MAINTAINERS: remove historic section DEVICE NUMBER REGISTRY

From: Lukas Bulwahn
Date: Tue Mar 07 2023 - 09:55:59 EST


As described in Documentation/admin-guide/devices.rst, the device number
registry (or linux device list) is at Documentation/admin-guide/devices.txt
and no longer maintained at lanana.org.

The devices.txt file is basically community-maintained, and there is no
other dedicated maintainer or contact for that file nowadays.

Remove the historic section DEVICE NUMBER REGISTRY in MAINTAINERS.

Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@xxxxxxxxx>
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Note: According to the get_maintainer script, Jonathan Corbet would be the
maintainer of those files, but probably everyone knows that the formal
role is really among various kernel developers, and not with Jon as
a benevolent dictator.

Jon, if that is fine for you, we just keep that with MAINTAINERS as-is.
Otherwise, I can send a specific change to exclude those two files,
Documentation/admin-guide/devices.{rst|txt} from the DOCUMENTATION
section in MAINTAINERS, but I do not see that critical, as only very little
changes happen to those files nowadays.


MAINTAINERS | 5 -----
1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 631fac6ab555..5d8f46f35aa4 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -5940,11 +5940,6 @@ F: drivers/devfreq/event/
F: include/dt-bindings/pmu/exynos_ppmu.h
F: include/linux/devfreq-event.h

-DEVICE NUMBER REGISTRY
-M: Torben Mathiasen <device@xxxxxxxxxx>
-S: Maintained
-W: http://lanana.org/docs/device-list/index.html
-
DEVICE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT HELPERS
M: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx>
R: Matti Vaittinen <mazziesaccount@xxxxxxxxx>
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