Re: [PATCH 2/2] MAINTAINERS: Make cxl obsolete
From: Finn Thain
Date: Wed Apr 10 2024 - 19:44:08 EST
On Wed, 10 Apr 2024, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> >
> > Could we do something similar, write a message at boottime when the
> > CXL driver gets probed ?
>
> Yeah, I think so.
>
> There's still the problem that people tend not to look at dmesg until
> something breaks, but at least we can try and get their attention.
>
People would get in the habit to look for that, if all maintainers adopted
a convention such that a boot-time message would list every newly-orphaned
driver in each release. Maybe the maintainer of the MAINTAINERS file could
check that every newly orphaned driver got announced.