Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 11 Aug 2009 07:49:53 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Add networking wireless drivers section | From | David Miller <> |
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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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