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authorGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2020-09-30 14:10:07 +0200
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2020-09-30 18:28:09 +0200
commitc471bf4b11c7df0f0f9f42b5aeec424dc62d0c7e (patch)
tree9679d85842a6aafbc4c6e4bd50f48969adbbe24f
parentmisc: mic: drop double zeroing (diff)
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MAINTAINERS: exclude char maintainers from things they do not maintain
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. Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200930121007.GA1615300@kroah.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index d6b9445649e5..a6f0a3ec0047 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -4101,6 +4101,11 @@ T: git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc.git
F: drivers/char/
F: drivers/misc/
F: include/linux/miscdevice.h
+X: drivers/char/agp/
+X: drivers/char/hw_random/
+X: drivers/char/ipmi/
+X: drivers/char/random.c
+X: drivers/char/tpm/
CHECKPATCH
M: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>