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

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Date:   Mon, 26 Aug 2019 17:45:21 +0200
From:   Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@...il.com>
To:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:     Len Brown <len.brown@...el.com>, X86 ML <x86@...nel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RESEND][PATCH v2-resend] MAINTAINERS: mark simple firmware
 interface (SFI) obsolete

On Mon, Aug 26, 2019 at 5:12 PM Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de> wrote:
>
> 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.
>

Patch v3 will follow, where I will simply drop the maintainer. That
makes clear that nobody is maintaining this obsolete driver and with
the next clean-up action, somebody looking for obsolete drivers will
simply move this code into staging or simply delete it for good.

Let us indicate that that is the plan by changing it to obsolete and
remove all maintainers.

Lukas