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SubjectRe: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Add networking wireless drivers section
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From: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 15:55:46 +0200 (CEST)

> On Tue, 28 Jul 2009, Joe Perches wrote:
>
>> > Why not just create a plain "WIRELESS" umbrella entry that contains
>> > all of drivers/net/wireless, net/mac80211, and net/wireless?
>> Whatever works for John I suppose. John, do you have a preference?
>> I was trying to avoid the "S: Maintained" label
>> and was copying the form of this section:
>>
>> NETWORKING DRIVERS
>> L: netdev@vger.kernel.org
>> W: http://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/Net
>> T: git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6.git
>> S: Odd Fixes
>> F: drivers/net/
>
> Just out of curiosity, why is drivers/net marked as "Odd fixes" and not
> "Maintained"?

Because it depends upon the individual driver maintainers. For
example, I don't think one could claim 3c515.c or other ISA ethernet
drivers to be in any kind of "Maintained" state.


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