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

Daniel Stone
2022-02-02T11:11:02Z

On Mon, 31 Jan 2022 at 21:06, Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> 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 outdated MAINTAINER entries for these with people and git trees that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.

Acked-by: Daniel Stone <daniels@collabora.com>