Several staging directories have TODO files that indicate a subsystem will be removed in the future.
Using a status entry of "S: Obsolete" helps indicate the subsystem files should not be modified unnecessarily. checkpatch also tests this setting and emits a warning that the matching subsystem files should not be modified. This might help avoid receiving patches that will be dropped. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <j...@perches.com> --- MAINTAINERS | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS index 3d53de49e736..9edf41e051e0 100644 --- a/MAINTAINERS +++ b/MAINTAINERS @@ -7350,7 +7350,7 @@ F: drivers/tty/ipwireless/ IPX NETWORK LAYER L: netdev@vger.kernel.org -S: Odd fixes +S: Obsolete F: include/uapi/linux/ipx.h F: drivers/staging/ipx/ @@ -7359,7 +7359,7 @@ M: Samuel Ortiz <sam...@sortiz.org> L: irda-us...@lists.sourceforge.net (subscribers-only) L: netdev@vger.kernel.org W: http://irda.sourceforge.net/ -S: Maintained +S: Obsolete T: git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sameo/irda-2.6.git F: Documentation/networking/irda.txt F: drivers/staging/irda/ @@ -9439,7 +9439,7 @@ F: drivers/net/ethernet/natsemi/natsemi.c NCP FILESYSTEM M: Petr Vandrovec <p...@vandrovec.name> -S: Odd Fixes +S: Obsolete F: drivers/staging/ncpfs/ NCR 5380 SCSI DRIVERS
