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Message-Id: <20200118082545.23464-1-lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Date:   Sat, 18 Jan 2020 09:25:45 +0100
From:   Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@...il.com>
To:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Len Brown <len.brown@...el.com>
Cc:     x86@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH SECOND-RESEND] MAINTAINERS: mark simple firmware interface (SFI) obsolete

Len Brown has not been active in this part since around 2010 and
confirmed that he is not maintaining this part of the kernel sources
anymore and the git log suggests that nobody is actively maintaining it.

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.

Len Brown expects no further systems to be shipped with SFI, so we can
mark it obsolete and schedule it for deletion.

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>
---
Thomas, please pick this _reworked_ patch now. thanks.

v1: https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/1033696/
  - got Acked-by: Len Brown <len.brown@...el.com>
 
v2:
  - also change status to Obsolete

v2-resend:
  - applies cleanly to v5.3-rc5 and next-20190823

v3:
  - simply remove Len Brown and do not try to find a possible
    replacement, as Thomas requested.

v3-resend:
  - applies cleanly on v5.5-rc1, current master (e31736d9fae8) and
    next-20191213

v3-second-resend:
  - applies cleanly on v5.5-rc6 and next-20200117 

 MAINTAINERS | 5 +----
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 4017e6b760be..fe82a0deb8cc 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -15044,11 +15044,8 @@ F:	drivers/video/fbdev/sm712*
 F:	Documentation/fb/sm712fb.rst
 
 SIMPLE FIRMWARE INTERFACE (SFI)
-M:	Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>
-L:	sfi-devel@...plefirmware.org
 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
-- 
2.17.1