[PATCH 2/2] MAINTAINERS: Make cxl obsolete

Finn Thain fthain at linux-m68k.org
Thu Apr 11 09:43:48 AEST 2024


On Wed, 10 Apr 2024, Michael Ellerman wrote:

> >
> > Could we do something similar, write a message at boottime when the 
> > CXL driver gets probed ?
> 
> Yeah, I think so.
> 
> There's still the problem that people tend not to look at dmesg until 
> something breaks, but at least we can try and get their attention.
> 

People would get in the habit to look for that, if all maintainers adopted 
a convention such that a boot-time message would list every newly-orphaned 
driver in each release. Maybe the maintainer of the MAINTAINERS file could 
check that every newly orphaned driver got announced.


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