[PATCH] fbdev: remove current maintainer
Laurent Pinchart
laurent.pinchart at ideasonboard.com
Tue Dec 20 01:17:36 UTC 2016
Hi Daniel,
On Thursday 08 Dec 2016 11:04:47 Daniel Vetter wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 08, 2016 at 10:34:12AM +0200, Tomi Valkeinen wrote:
> > Remove Tomi Valkeinen from fbdev maintainer and mark fbdev as orphan.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen at ti.com>
> > ---
> >
> > I just don't have time to even pretend I maintain fbdev, so mark it as
> > Orphan.
> >
> > Anyone want to pick fbdev maintainership?
>
> I think for fbdev stuff that we need for the fbdev emulation in drm we
> could merge it through drm-misc.
Or we could instead invest time on getting rid of that last dependency on
fbdev ? :-)
> And I'd very much welcome if you can
> still review those patches (e.g. the nommu enabling that's floating right
> now). If you want can also give you commit rights to drm-misc for that
> area. Or drm-misc maintainers can apply those patches.
>
> Anything else would be still out of scope ofc.
>
> What we might want to do is add dri-devel to the mailing lists, to make
> sure patch submissions get redicted to the right subsystem. Mail volume
> seems pretty low compared to dri-devel, I think we can absorb that.
> -Daniel
>
> > MAINTAINERS | 3 +--
> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> > index 851b89b9edcb..fc2790eb4e84 100644
> > --- a/MAINTAINERS
> > +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> > @@ -4968,10 +4968,9 @@ F: drivers/net/wan/dlci.c
> >
> > F: drivers/net/wan/sdla.c
> >
> > FRAMEBUFFER LAYER
> >
> > -M: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen at ti.com>
> >
> > L: linux-fbdev at vger.kernel.org
> > Q: http://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-fbdev/list/
> >
> > -S: Maintained
> > +S: Orphan
> >
> > F: Documentation/fb/
> > F: drivers/video/
> > F: include/video/
--
Regards,
Laurent Pinchart
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