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Date:   Tue, 19 Feb 2019 15:12:56 -0500
From:   Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>
To:     Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@...il.com>
Cc:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Len Brown <len.brown@...el.com>,
        Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@...ux.intel.com>, X86 ML <x86@...nel.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: update simple firmware interface (SFI)
 section entry

Acked-by: Len Brown <len.brown@...el.com>

Indeed, Lukas, I believe that all of the systems that will ship with
SFI have shipped.
It is probably time to delete this code from the kernel.

-Len

On Sat, Jan 19, 2019 at 3:07 PM Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@...il.com> wrote:
>
> Len Brown has not been active in this part since around 2010. The recent
> activity suggests that Thomas Gleixner and Jiang Lui were maintaining
> this part of the kernel sources. Jiang Lui has not been active in the
> kernel sources since beginning 2016. So, the maintainer's role seems to
> be now with Thomas.
>
> The referenced git tree does not exist. Instead, I found an sfi branch
> in Len's kernel git repository, but that has not been updated since 2014;
> so that is not worth to be mentioned in MAINTAINERS now anymore either.
>
> This change was motivated after I found that I could not send any mails
> to the sfi-devel mailing list, and that the mailing list does not exist
> anymore.
>
> Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@...il.com>
> ---
>
> Len, please ack this patch.
>
> Thomas, if you are maintaining SFI, please pick this.
>
>  MAINTAINERS | 4 +---
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index 887b4b9fb6c4..e2d370910a07 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -13841,10 +13841,8 @@ F:     drivers/video/fbdev/sm712*
>  F:     Documentation/fb/sm712fb.txt
>
>  SIMPLE FIRMWARE INTERFACE (SFI)
> -M:     Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>
> -L:     sfi-devel@...plefirmware.org
> +M:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
>  W:     http://simplefirmware.org/
> -T:     git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-sfi-2.6.git
>  S:     Supported
>  F:     arch/x86/platform/sfi/
>  F:     drivers/sfi/
> --
> 2.17.1
>


-- 
Len Brown, Intel Open Source Technology Center