Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] auxdisplay: Take over maintainership, but in Odd Fixes mode

Thomas Zimmermann
2024-02-12T16:33:42Z

(cc'ing Javier Martinez Canillas)

Hi

Am 12.02.24 um 14:23 schrieb Andy Shevchenko:
> I have no time for this, but since it looks like I'm the main
> contributor for the last few years to the subsystem, I'll take
> it for now. Geert agreed to help me with as a designated reviwer.
> Let's see how it will go...

A few days ago, I talked to Javier about how auxdisplay is a hotchpodge
of various drivers that seem to belong into other subsystems. Could we
attempt to move all drivers into other places and then remove the
auxdisplay subsystem?

Best regards
Thomas

>
> Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
> ---
> MAINTAINERS | 6 ++++--
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index 75cf018922a4..e2a804e22c3b 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -3406,8 +3406,10 @@ F: drivers/base/auxiliary.c
> F: include/linux/auxiliary_bus.h
>
> AUXILIARY DISPLAY DRIVERS
> -M: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
> -S: Maintained
> +M: Andy Shevchenko <andy@kernel.org>
> +R: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
> +S: Odd Fixes
> +T: git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/andy/linux-auxdisplay.git
> F: Documentation/devicetree/bindings/auxdisplay/
> F: drivers/auxdisplay/
> F: include/linux/cfag12864b.h

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Thomas Zimmermann
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