[PATCH 4/4] MAINTAINERS: Add entry for Solomon SSD1307 OLED displays DRM driver

Javier Martinez Canillas javierm at redhat.com
Tue Feb 1 11:17:35 UTC 2022


Hello Andy,

On 2/1/22 10:32, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 09:15:37PM +0100, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
>> To make sure that tools like the get_maintainer.pl script will suggest
>> to Cc me if patches are posted for this driver.
>>
>> Also include the Device Tree binding for the old ssd1307fb fbdev driver
>> since the new DRM driver was made compatible with the existing binding.
> 
> Dunno why you have patches 3 and 4 missed references (in terms of email
> thread).
>

Yeah, I use the patman tool [0] to post patches and something went wrong
after sending the first patch and I had to manually post the others with
git-send-email. I could had used --in-reply-to, but didn't feel like it.

[0]: https://gitlab.com/u-boot/u-boot/tree/master/tools/patman
 
>> +DRM DRIVER FOR SOLOMON SSD1307 OLED DISPLAYS
>> +M:	Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm at redhat.com>
>> +S:	Maintained
>> +T:	git git://anongit.freedesktop.org/drm/drm-misc
>> +F:	Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/solomon,ssd1307fb.yaml
>> +F:	drivers/gpu/drm/tiny/ssd1307.c
> 
> I think it makes sense to add ssd1307fb as well. At least you may point out
> people patching old driver about new one until it's gone completely.
> 

That's a good idea. I also found some issues in the ssd1307fb driver when
doing the port, so I could dig more to fix them and propose myself as a
co-maintainer for the fbdev driver.

But I'll do that as a separate patch-set.

Best regards,
-- 
Javier Martinez Canillas
Linux Engineering
Red Hat



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