Re: [PATCH] ARM: MAINTAINERS: drop empty entries for removed boards

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Tue Jan 02 2024 - 04:26:08 EST


On Mon, Dec 18, 2023, at 15:39, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> On 18/12/2023 15:21, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>> On Mon, Dec 18, 2023, at 13:45, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
>>
>> drivers/mmc/host/pxamci.c and drivers/rtc/rtc-pxa.c
>> are still in use.
>
> MMCI does not have maintainer.
>
> For the RTC, I guess the intention of 57f63bc8fe79 ("rtc: update
> maintainership of pxa rtc driver") was to maintain the driver.
>
> The actual problem is that all of these entries (and R-321X below) come
> from the times people were not putting any file paths to MAINTAINERS.
> They stayed like this for 15-17 years, thus being effectively noop.
>
> Let's maybe wait till any of Cc-ed people respond and confirm they want
> to grow the maintainer entry to cover the files? If they don't come, I
> propose to remove them.

Nobody else replied now, so for the moment, I applied a partial
patch removing the EDB9315A, TS7250, TETON and CATS entries that
are for files that were removed or are in the process.

For the other ones, I would still prefer to just list the files.

Arnd