linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: trees being removed

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Message-ID: <484f43b8-aefd-467b-8cc1-a3505a29cf2c@kernel.org>
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2025 13:01:31 +0100
From: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@...nel.org>
To: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
 Linux Next Mailing List <linux-next@...r.kernel.org>,
 Oded Gabbay <ogabbay@...nel.org>, David Airlie <airlied@...il.com>,
 Simona Vetter <simona@...ll.ch>, dri-devel <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
 Andreas Larsson <andreas@...sler.com>,
 Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>,
 Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@...cle.com>, Dennis Zhou <dennis@...nel.org>,
 Dipen Patel <dipenp@...dia.com>,
 Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@...labora.com>,
 Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, Jean Delvare <jdelvare@...e.de>,
 Lee Jones <lee@...nel.org>, Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>,
 Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>, Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@...nel.org>,
 Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
 Tyler Hicks <code@...icks.com>, Uwe Kleine-König
 <ukleinek@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: linux-next: trees being removed

On 19/12/2025 12:53, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> On 15/12/2025 08:41, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> The following trees are going to be removed from linux-next because they
>> have not been updated in more than a year.  If you want a tree kept,
>> please just reply and let me know (and update its branch).  If you want
>> a tree restored after it has been removed, just let me know (and update
>> its branch).
>>
>> Tree			Last commit date
>>   URL
>>   comits (if any)
>> ----			----------------
>> accel			2024-05-03 11:00:53 +1000
>>   https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ogabbay/linux.git#habanalabs-next
> 
> +Cc few DRM addresses,
> 
> Shall we make DRM accel subsystem orphaned in this case? This tree is
> still mentioned in "DRM COMPUTE ACCELERATORS DRIVERS AND FRAMEWORK"
> maintainers entry, but if no work is happening, no updates to Git repo,
> then does that mean project is effectively dead now?
> 
> To be fair, the patches are still posted [1] but if nothing is picked up
> to the repo then maybe new maintainers are needed? Or repo did move to
> other place silently?
> 
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/?q=dfn%3Adrivers%2Faccel%2F
> 

I dig a bit more and individual drivers are still picked up via
drm-misc, but I guess Oded has much less time now [1] and even recent
changes to drivers/accel/drm_accel.c went via other person. With tree
being dropped from the next, it should probably be removed from the
MAINTAINERS. I'll just send a patch, easier to comment there.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/?q=f%3A%22Oded+Gabbay%22


Best regards,
Krzysztof