linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 01/21] MAINTAINERS: Add entry for fbdev core

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Date:   Wed, 2 Feb 2022 13:18:44 +0200
From:   Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@...asonboard.com>
To:     Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...ll.ch>,
        DRI Development <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>
Cc:     linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org,
        Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@...e.de>,
        Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>,
        Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...el.com>,
        Intel Graphics Development <intel-gfx@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@...hat.com>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.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>,
        Sven Schnelle <svens@...ckframe.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/21] MAINTAINERS: Add entry for fbdev core

On 31/01/2022 23:05, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> Ever since Tomi extracted the core code in 2014 it's been defacto me
> maintaining this, with help from others from dri-devel and sometimes
> Linus (but those are mostly merge conflicts):
> 
> $ git shortlog -ns  drivers/video/fbdev/core/ | head -n5
>      35  Daniel Vetter
>      23  Linus Torvalds
>      10  Hans de Goede
>       9  Dave Airlie
>       6  Peter Rosin
> 
> I think ideally we'd also record that the various firmware fb drivers
> (efifb, vesafb, ...) are also maintained in drm-misc because for the
> past few years the patches have either been to fix handover issues
> with drm drivers, or caused handover issues with drm drivers. So any
> other tree just doesn't make sense. But also, there's plenty of
> outdated MAINTAINER entries for these with people and git trees that
> haven't been active in years, so maybe let's just leave them alone.
> And furthermore distros are now adopting simpledrm as the firmware fb
> driver, so hopefully the need to care about the fbdev firmware drivers
> will go down going forward.
> 
> Note that drm-misc is group maintained, I expect that to continue like
> we've done before, so no new expectations that patches all go through
> my hands. That would be silly. This also means I'm happy to put any
> other volunteer's name in the M: line, but otherwise git log says I'm
> the one who's stuck with this.

Acked-by: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@...asonboard.com>

  Tomi