linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH linux-next v2 00/10] drm: Remove some obsolete drivers(tdfx, mga, i810, savage, r128, sis, via)

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Date:   Thu, 8 Dec 2022 15:56:38 +0000
From:   Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov@...il.com>
To:     Cai Huoqing <cai.huoqing@...ux.dev>
Cc:     tzimmermann@...e.de, Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>,
        Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
        Danilo Krummrich <dakr@...hat.com>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH linux-next v2 00/10] drm: Remove some obsolete
 drivers(tdfx, mga, i810, savage, r128, sis, via)

On Sat, 3 Dec 2022 at 09:45, Cai Huoqing <cai.huoqing@...ux.dev> wrote:
>
> Commit 399516ab0fee ("MAINTAINERS: Add a bunch of legacy (UMS) DRM drivers")
> marked these drivers obsolete 7 years ago.

As the author of said patch - calling them obsolete was a bad decision
on my part.
They are effectively orphan with no maintainer and no other driver(s)
that provide the same, or equivalent functionality.

As a DRM newcomer I would recommend sticking to smaller and more
tangible tasks. The TODO list has plenty of varying complexity.

[1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/gpu/todo.html