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 5C144C433F5 for ; Tue, 1 Feb 2022 10:45:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S235888AbiBAKpX (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Feb 2022 05:45:23 -0500 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:58560 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S229845AbiBAKpV (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Feb 2022 05:45:21 -0500 Received: from sin.source.kernel.org (sin.source.kernel.org [IPv6:2604:1380:40e1:4800::1]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 18A73C061714; Tue, 1 Feb 2022 02:45:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.kernel.org (relay.kernel.org [52.25.139.140]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by sin.source.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0E7CDCE17BE; Tue, 1 Feb 2022 10:45:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 97346C340EB; Tue, 1 Feb 2022 10:45:16 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=linuxfoundation.org; s=korg; t=1643712317; bh=5Dywqqhvly/4y4o+KsBPpEDImiEUvdk7lfmcjfKc3+w=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=gUtU1BFx1ngOhR1sm/yeKSKNt8mPzGczhsZkROAFtOzR1apGTkCU9q43ppWClX++f TmacYajJQ+3M2fkfLKOnBw/Pw70mOAPM1jBT3dlbbeUP2rphFzdkqitg2A9/41t15f Ms+L0pDQvgRttXCujjQ4Xar8IMXFZc1jWz8vsM9o= Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2022 11:45:14 +0100 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: Thomas Zimmermann Cc: Daniel Vetter , DRI Development , linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org, Sam Ravnborg , Daniel Vetter , Intel Graphics Development , LKML , Javier Martinez Canillas , Linus Torvalds , Tomi Valkeinen , Claudio Suarez , Gerd Hoffmann , Pavel Machek , Geert Uytterhoeven , Sven Schnelle Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/21] MAINTAINERS: Add entry for fbdev core Message-ID: References: <20220131210552.482606-1-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> <20220131210552.482606-2-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> <648ac929-8de9-4ec4-f73d-d1048a419eb9@suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <648ac929-8de9-4ec4-f73d-d1048a419eb9@suse.de> Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Feb 01, 2022 at 11:19:54AM +0100, Thomas Zimmermann wrote: > > > Am 31.01.22 um 22:05 schrieb Daniel Vetter: > > 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 > > Cc: Jani Nikula > > Cc: Linus Torvalds > > Cc: Linux Fbdev development list > > Cc: Pavel Machek > > Cc: Sam Ravnborg > > Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman > > Cc: Javier Martinez Canillas > > Cc: DRI Development > > Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List > > Cc: Claudio Suarez > > Cc: Tomi Valkeinen > > Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven > > Cc: Thomas Zimmermann > > Cc: Daniel Vetter > > Cc: Sven Schnelle > > Cc: Gerd Hoffmann > > Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter > > Acked-by: Thomas Zimmermann Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman