On Wed, 2020-09-30 at 18:28 +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 08:36:56AM -0500, Corey Minyard wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 02:10:07PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > > There are a number of subdirectories and files in drivers/char/ that > > > have their own maintainers and developers and ways of getting patches to > > > Linus. This includes random.c, IPMI, hardware random drivers, TPM > > > drivers, and agp drivers. Instead of sending those patches to Arnd and > > > myself, who can't do anything with them, send them to the proper > > > developers instead. > > > > > > Cc: Arnd Bergmann <a...@arndb.de> > > > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> > > > > Yes, please do. No reason for you to get all the noise from these. > > > > Acked-by: Corey Minyard <cminy...@mvista.com> > > Thanks! > > greg k-h
Your exclusion list is: +X: drivers/char/agp/ +X: drivers/char/hw_random/ +X: drivers/char/ipmi/ +X: drivers/char/random.c +X: drivers/char/tpm/ But the current subdirectories of drivers/char are: drivers/char/agp drivers/char/hw_random drivers/char/ipmi drivers/char/mwave drivers/char/pcmcia drivers/char/tpm drivers/char/tpm/eventlog drivers/char/tpm/st33zp24 drivers/char/xilinx_hwicap drivers/char/xillybus do you want to specifically maintain any of them? Wouldn't it be easier to add a single subdirectory exclusion and add specific inclusions for subdirectories you actually do want to maintain> X: drivers/char/*/ F: drivers/char/<whatever>
