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Date:   Tue, 20 Dec 2016 03:17:36 +0200
From:   Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@...asonboard.com>
To:     dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org
Cc:     Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>,
        Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@...com>,
        linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fbdev: remove current maintainer

Hi Daniel,

On Thursday 08 Dec 2016 11:04:47 Daniel Vetter wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 08, 2016 at 10:34:12AM +0200, Tomi Valkeinen wrote:
> > Remove Tomi Valkeinen from fbdev maintainer and mark fbdev as orphan.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@...com>
> > ---
> > 
> > I just don't have time to even pretend I maintain fbdev, so mark it as
> > Orphan.
> > 
> > Anyone want to pick fbdev maintainership?
> 
> I think for fbdev stuff that we need for the fbdev emulation in drm we
> could merge it through drm-misc.

Or we could instead invest time on getting rid of that last dependency on 
fbdev ? :-)

> And I'd very much welcome if you can
> still review those patches (e.g. the nommu enabling that's floating right
> now). If you want can also give you commit rights to drm-misc for that
> area. Or drm-misc maintainers can apply those patches.
> 
> Anything else would be still out of scope ofc.
> 
> What we might want to do is add dri-devel to the mailing lists, to make
> sure patch submissions get redicted to the right subsystem. Mail volume
> seems pretty low compared to dri-devel, I think we can absorb that.
> -Daniel
> 
> >  MAINTAINERS | 3 +--
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> > index 851b89b9edcb..fc2790eb4e84 100644
> > --- a/MAINTAINERS
> > +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> > @@ -4968,10 +4968,9 @@ F:	drivers/net/wan/dlci.c
> > 
> >  F:	drivers/net/wan/sdla.c
> >  
> >  FRAMEBUFFER LAYER
> > 
> > -M:	Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@...com>
> > 
> >  L:	linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org
> >  Q:	http://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-fbdev/list/
> > 
> > -S:	Maintained
> > +S:	Orphan
> > 
> >  F:	Documentation/fb/
> >  F:	drivers/video/
> >  F:	include/video/

-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart