From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D745C433EF for ; Wed, 2 Feb 2022 11:18:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S229800AbiBBLSu (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Feb 2022 06:18:50 -0500 Received: from perceval.ideasonboard.com ([213.167.242.64]:53776 "EHLO perceval.ideasonboard.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S230163AbiBBLSt (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Feb 2022 06:18:49 -0500 Received: from [192.168.1.111] (91-156-85-209.elisa-laajakaista.fi [91.156.85.209]) by perceval.ideasonboard.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 705492F3; Wed, 2 Feb 2022 12:18:47 +0100 (CET) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=ideasonboard.com; s=mail; t=1643800728; bh=Fze3IjD9I12d7wjCEcEq9u8vjeNKqEjIfhxOdCPyiIc=; h=Date:Subject:To:Cc:References:From:In-Reply-To:From; b=t2W1deen/IXaDZlIuuEyTvRmRkM7qZ2GIPbaEEVSJg5ZRykeGHTApODbTGRMTijlS DXacsSebe0jButuW3K4bqD7eh9DME8ZhudAMR5My5jUfIHtazf+iJ41GhuoAUqIw5c lM9xWE6k1HIwIvax4CWuoQcW0tgygUO6G9sf5CXU= Message-ID: <801ccc6c-a70b-abe6-bab3-baa75a1203f1@ideasonboard.com> Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2022 13:18:44 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/91.5.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/21] MAINTAINERS: Add entry for fbdev core Content-Language: en-US To: Daniel Vetter , DRI Development Cc: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org, Thomas Zimmermann , Sam Ravnborg , Daniel Vetter , Intel Graphics Development , LKML , Javier Martinez Canillas , Linus Torvalds , Tomi Valkeinen , Claudio Suarez , Gerd Hoffmann , Pavel Machek , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Geert Uytterhoeven , Sven Schnelle References: <20220131210552.482606-1-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> <20220131210552.482606-2-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> From: Tomi Valkeinen In-Reply-To: <20220131210552.482606-2-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org On 31/01/2022 23:05, 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. Acked-by: Tomi Valkeinen Tomi