Re: [Intel-gfx] [PATCH 01/21] MAINTAINERS: Add entry for fbdev core

Alex Deucher
2022-02-02T13:48:31Z

Acked-by: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>

On Wed, Feb 2, 2022 at 6:31 AM Maxime Ripard <maxime@cerno.tech> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 10:05:32PM +0100, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> > Ever since Tomi extracted the core code in 2014 it's been defacto me
> > maintaining this, with help from others from dri-devel and sometimes
> > Linus (but those are mostly merge conflicts):
> >
> > $ git shortlog -ns drivers/video/fbdev/core/ | head -n5
> > 35 Daniel Vetter
> > 23 Linus Torvalds
> > 10 Hans de Goede
> > 9 Dave Airlie
> > 6 Peter Rosin
> >
> > I think ideally we'd also record that the various firmware fb drivers
> > (efifb, vesafb, ...) are also maintained in drm-misc because for the
> > past few years the patches have either been to fix handover issues
> > with drm drivers, or caused handover issues with drm drivers. So any
> > other tree just doesn't make sense. But also, there's plenty of
> > outdated MAINTAINER entries for these with people and git trees that
> > haven't been active in years, so maybe let's just leave them alone.
> > And furthermore distros are now adopting simpledrm as the firmware fb
> > driver, so hopefully the need to care about the fbdev firmware drivers
> > will go down going forward.
> >
> > Note that drm-misc is group maintained, I expect that to continue like
> > we've done before, so no new expectations that patches all go through
> > my hands. That would be silly. This also means I'm happy to put any
> > other volunteer's name in the M: line, but otherwise git log says I'm
> > the one who's stuck with this.
> >
> > Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>
> > Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com>
> > Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
> > Cc: Linux Fbdev development list <linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org>
> > Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
> > Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
> > Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> > Cc: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@redhat.com>
> > Cc: DRI Development <dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org>
> > Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
> > Cc: Claudio Suarez <cssk@net-c.es>
> > Cc: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com>
> > Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
> > Cc: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
> > Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>
> > Cc: Sven Schnelle <svens@stackframe.org>
> > Cc: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>
>
> Acked-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime@cerno.tech>
>
> Maxime