linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] Revert "fbcon: Disable accelerated scrolling"

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Message-ID: <Yeg89V9X+aNz3H1j@phenom.ffwll.local>
Date:   Wed, 19 Jan 2022 17:31:49 +0100
From:   Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>
To:     Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     Helge Deller <deller@....de>, Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>,
        Sven Schnelle <svens@...ckframe.org>,
        Linux Fbdev development list <linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@...e.de>,
        Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...el.com>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@...hat.com>,
        DRI Development <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@...com>,
        Claudio Suarez <cssk@...-c.es>,
        Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@...hat.com>, Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
        Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Revert "fbcon: Disable accelerated scrolling"

On Wed, Jan 19, 2022 at 06:13:39PM +0200, Jani Nikula wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Jan 2022, Helge Deller <deller@....de> wrote:
> > On 1/19/22 16:42, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> >> If otoh you get the maintainership first to be able to cram in reverts
> >> without discussions, then it's very backwards.
> > I'm working on the Linux kernel since at least 23 years and am a maintainer of parts of it.
> > I know that and would never push something which is controversal without discussions.
> 
> I think the entire MAINTAINERS change was controversial and rushed to
> Linus without discussion over a weekend.

Yeah just looking at the size of the thread is pretty clear indiciation
that this went wrong real good.

And I said that you need to clean this up in my very first reply. None of
this should have been a surprise, but somehow it all happened.
-Daniel
-- 
Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
http://blog.ffwll.ch