linux-kernel - Re: [RESEND][PATCH v2-resend] MAINTAINERS: mark simple firmware interface (SFI) obsolete

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Date:   Mon, 26 Aug 2019 17:12:12 +0200 (CEST)
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:     Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@...il.com>
cc:     Len Brown <len.brown@...el.com>, x86@...nel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RESEND][PATCH v2-resend] MAINTAINERS: mark simple firmware
 interface (SFI) obsolete

Lukas,

On Sun, 25 Aug 2019, Lukas Bulwahn 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.

Nice try. All I did there was converting the existing code to new
interfaces and to use SPDX identifiers. You touched it last, you own it, is
not really working.

TBH. I have no clue what that is except that it's bitrotting.

>  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
> +S:	Obsolete
>  F:	arch/x86/platform/sfi/
>  F:	drivers/sfi/
>  F:	include/linux/sfi*.h

So why not removing this whole entry. arch/x86/platform/sfi is already
covered by x86 and the driver cruft falls back to the people who are used
to deal with dead drivers anyway.

Thanks,

	tglx