Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Leave the cumana_1 and oak drivers to the RISCPC maintainers

[Michael Schmitz]

Hi Finn,

thanks for your patch!

Am 18.08.2026 um 13:00 schrieb Finn Thain:
> The NCR5380 entry in MAINTAINERS includes drivers/scsi/arm/cumana_1.c and
> drivers/scsi/arm/oak.c. However, those two files are also covered by the
> drivers/scsi/arm/ pathname in the ARM/RISCPC entry.
>
> The latter entry is more effective than the former because, AIUI, neither
> Michael nor I have access to the necessary hardware. IMHO, such access is
> a pre-requisite for the 'maintainer' role for device drivers.
>
> To work on these particular drivers would require an old GCC compiler,
> having support for -march=armv3m, which is a problem for contributors.
>
> Cc: Michael Schmitz <schmitzmic@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Russell King <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Finn Thain <fthain@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Michael Schmitz <schmitzmic@xxxxxxxxx>

> ---
>  MAINTAINERS | 2 --
>  1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index 8014b9f8253e..e36df6b23326 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -18571,8 +18571,6 @@ L:	linux-scsi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>  S:	Maintained
>  F:	Documentation/scsi/g_NCR5380.rst
>  F:	drivers/scsi/NCR5380.*
> -F:	drivers/scsi/arm/cumana_1.c
> -F:	drivers/scsi/arm/oak.c
>  F:	drivers/scsi/atari_scsi.*
>  F:	drivers/scsi/dmx3191d.c
>  F:	drivers/scsi/g_NCR5380.*