From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from out2-smtp.messagingengine.com (out2-smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.26]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B9B1217CE for ; Wed, 10 Aug 2022 08:50:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from compute2.internal (compute2.nyi.internal [10.202.2.46]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE9565C03FE; Wed, 10 Aug 2022 04:50:31 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mailfrontend2 ([10.202.2.163]) by compute2.internal (MEProxy); Wed, 10 Aug 2022 04:50:31 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=kroah.com; h=cc :cc:content-type:date:date:from:from:in-reply-to:in-reply-to :message-id:mime-version:references:reply-to:sender:subject :subject:to:to; s=fm1; t=1660121431; x=1660207831; bh=IeZJEFNwj/ VdPGU0xS4noMI2zX4SBKDyjp4Prx352+w=; b=ptKtrcorO7jPWdCnnDGAQgnPXx hrXLlU1nVp1B80aLNCgV/xaVJ5CCekM5YkFp0ub09S2DH7kH2e1gfXYi/yko5Adu 3PBUrYZ9LgBrFlQ5yte6J+IdI8obRzphPccqIyNnAdxkGKpyy/yxdpnA1/5XM83b MEC3EJ3+0heYYULyJ2/yjmaeV8T3HE4kZczWZm4TUw8lnI/CXL6IHKo6gWlAjNPA 0e2cTroP75ccgccWjsA2LQ69HzgkbsAAuRJEjsmosCVznkGiajfZZH3PX5I7jiIp eelmOKWERkM3u4noIJabssluhDZeNFOfqkBrQViyTMAEINzBfEziZYByb+vQ== DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=cc:cc:content-type:date:date:feedback-id :feedback-id:from:from:in-reply-to:in-reply-to:message-id :mime-version:references:reply-to:sender:subject:subject:to:to :x-me-proxy:x-me-proxy:x-me-sender:x-me-sender:x-sasl-enc; s= fm1; t=1660121431; x=1660207831; bh=IeZJEFNwj/VdPGU0xS4noMI2zX4S BKDyjp4Prx352+w=; b=vZ+HHeFRYWq7NAQRzXZWn7oVKJwaWifiHS5U8gfPTDEY Z+OUcM5UMV5g5U9dUl1T4vWWT8lnON3Py/FpMvTyn+dJ6dgeTTdoDAhEQyHRwEX8 +XLMMuKLVIIoAT/57liO5PNarorddRJCDIbSi5nKMMEij0iGE6JBVBMiYzGRlrbg zH+3+dlc8KLJbbMUTJcIS5ULuTH9OETQVq904tNpsy/EheSQ+DJwk7sgtIA3BCkk cjarwbmxDLzc8fWc23uqJUoP+NBo+GaOBfiKOgyXOd4PdX7h5yX6fMMM6QUGAY2W ebyeHQ4dzqLPyQuz0RY/udLOVmw5T13JC9C20vnPCg== X-ME-Sender: X-ME-Received: X-ME-Proxy-Cause: gggruggvucftvghtrhhoucdtuddrgedvfedrvdegvddgtdeiucetufdoteggodetrfdotf fvucfrrhhofhhilhgvmecuhfgrshhtofgrihhlpdfqfgfvpdfurfetoffkrfgpnffqhgen uceurghilhhouhhtmecufedttdenucesvcftvggtihhpihgvnhhtshculddquddttddmne cujfgurhepfffhvfevuffkfhggtggujgesthdtredttddtvdenucfhrhhomhepifhrvghg ucfmjfcuoehgrhgvgheskhhrohgrhhdrtghomheqnecuggftrfgrthhtvghrnhepheegvd evvdeljeeugfdtudduhfekledtiefhveejkeejuefhtdeufefhgfehkeetnecuvehluhhs thgvrhfuihiivgeptdenucfrrghrrghmpehmrghilhhfrhhomhepghhrvghgsehkrhhorg hhrdgtohhm X-ME-Proxy: Feedback-ID: i787e41f1:Fastmail Received: by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA; Wed, 10 Aug 2022 04:50:31 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2022 10:36:45 +0200 From: Greg KH To: Dan Carpenter Cc: Stephen Hemminger , ksummit@lists.linux.dev Subject: Re: Validating MAINTAINERS entries? Message-ID: References: <20220809171316.1d6ce319@hermes.local> <20220810082640.GK3438@kadam> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: ksummit@lists.linux.dev List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20220810082640.GK3438@kadam> On Wed, Aug 10, 2022 at 11:26:40AM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote: > On Tue, Aug 09, 2022 at 05:13:16PM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > Several times in the past, when using MAINTAINERS list either automatically > > (or from manual entry) have found the mailing address in the file is no longer valid. > > > > What about doing an annual probe mail to all maintainers and sending > > a patch to prune out any addresses that auto respond as dead. > > This won't catch ghost entries but would find any dead ones. > > > > Also we could add a RETIRED file or something for when people retire and > don't want get_maintainer.pl hassling them. Isn't that what CREDITS is for?