Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Add dri-devel as a mailing list for anything fbdev

[Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>]

On Tuesday, October 03, 2017 11:24:39 AM Daniel Vetter wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 02, 2017 at 10:29:26AM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 08, 2017 at 11:39:44AM -0400, Sean Paul wrote:
> > > On Fri, Sep 8, 2017 at 11:35 AM, Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> wrote:
> > > > fbdev is in maintenance only, except that it's still used by drm
> > > > through the drm fbdev emulation, to be able to use fbcon. And people
> > > > might want to sometimes extend fbcon to enable new features for drm
> > > > drivers, e.g. Hans' panel orientation work.
> > > >
> > > > The problem is that when those patches only touch fbdev code they'll
> > > > never show up on drm developer's radar, which means we end up with
> > > > designs that don't really fit whell into the full stack. That happened
> > > > a bit with the panel orientation work, where an fbcon patch made it
> > > > into 4.14, implementing a design that won't really work on the drm
> > > > side. Which means we now have to redo things, and on top coordinate 2
> > > > subsystem trees.
> > > >
> > > > Since fbdev is super low-volume we can prevent this in the future by
> > > > simply adding the dri-devel mailing list to the fbdev subsystem.
> > > >
> > > > Cc: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
> > > > Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>
> > > > Cc: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org
> > > > Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
> > > > Cc: Sean Paul <seanpaul@chromium.org>
> > > 
> > > Acked-by: Sean Paul <seanpaul@chromium.org>
> > 
> > Bartlomiej, ack from you too?
> 
> Dave Airlie acked it on irc, so pushed to drm-misc-next.

Fine with me.

Best regards,
--
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Samsung R&D Institute Poland
Samsung Electronics

> -Daniel
> > 
> > Thanks, Daniel
> > > 
> > > > Cc: David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
> > > > Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>
> > > > ---
> > > >  MAINTAINERS | 1 +
> > > >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> > > >
> > > > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> > > > index ba51d0906955..af9766a32949 100644
> > > > --- a/MAINTAINERS
> > > > +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> > > > @@ -5391,6 +5391,7 @@ F:        drivers/net/wan/sdla.c
> > > >
> > > >  FRAMEBUFFER LAYER
> > > >  M:     Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>
> > > > +L:     dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
> > > >  L:     linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org
> > > >  T:     git git://github.com/bzolnier/linux.git
> > > >  Q:     http://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-fbdev/list/
> > > > --
> > > > 2.14.1