[PATCH] [RFC] MAINTAINERS: Daniel for drm co-maintainer

Liviu Dudau Liviu.Dudau at arm.com
Thu Dec 13 11:09:41 UTC 2018


On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 11:12:35AM +0100, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 11:17:54AM +0000, Liviu Dudau wrote:
> > Hi Daniel,
> > 
> > On Mon, Dec 10, 2018 at 11:30:01AM +0100, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> > > lkml and Linus gained a CoC, and it's serious this time. Which means
> > > my no 1 reason for declining to officially step up as drm maintainer
> > > is gone, and I didn't find any new good excuse.
> > 
> > I wish you best of luck in the new role!
> > 
> > > 
> > > I chatted with a few people in private already, and the biggest
> > > concern is that I mislay my community hat and start running around
> > > with my intel hat only. Or some other convenient abuse of trust.
> > > 
> > > That's why this patch doesn't just need a lot of acks that mean "yeah
> > > seems fine to me", but a lot of acks that mean "yeah we'll tell you
> > > when you're over the line and usurp you from that comfy chair if you
> > > don't get it". Which I think we've been done a fairly good job here at
> > > dri-devel in general, but better to be clear.
> > 
> > Maybe a good step would be to arrange for you (and Dave?) to get some
> > non-Intel hardware that you could play with?
> 
> I have tons of non-Intel hardware. Little-promoted fact, but I prototyped
> the original atomic helpers on some hacked up exynos.
> 
> > > Rough idea is that I'll do this for maybe 2-3 years, helping Dave
> > > figure out a group model for drm overall. And getting the tooling and
> > > infrastructure for that off the ground. Then step down again because
> > > some other shiny thing that needs chasing. Of course as plans tend to
> > > do, this one will probably pan out a bit different in reality.
> > > 
> > > Cc: David Airlie <airlied at linux.ie>
> > > Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org>
> > > Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at intel.com>
> > 
> > Before I sign off anything I would like to get some clarity on these
> > email addresses. :) Which one is the primary one and are you using it
> > for signing off?
> 
> The @intel.com sob is for patches, because of the DCO and intel owning the
> copyright. The private one is where you should actually send me mails,
> because anything public that goes to @intel.com gets deleted :-)
> 
> For completeness, if you will:
> 
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel at ffwll.ch>

Thanks!

For what it is worth:

Acked-by: Liviu Dudau <liviu.dudau at arm.com>

Wishing you all the best in your new role!

Best regards,
Liviu

> 
> Cheers, Daniel
> 
> > Best regards,
> > Liviu
> > 
> > > ---
> > >  MAINTAINERS | 1 +
> > >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> > > index 7e05aa20b0ab..2c4cd038df2a 100644
> > > --- a/MAINTAINERS
> > > +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> > > @@ -4849,6 +4849,7 @@ F:	include/uapi/drm/vmwgfx_drm.h
> > >  
> > >  DRM DRIVERS
> > >  M:	David Airlie <airlied at linux.ie>
> > > +M:	Daniel Vetter <daniel at ffwll.ch>
> > >  L:	dri-devel at lists.freedesktop.org
> > >  T:	git git://anongit.freedesktop.org/drm/drm
> > >  B:	https://bugs.freedesktop.org/
> > > -- 
> > > 2.20.0.rc1
> > > 
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > dri-devel mailing list
> > > dri-devel at lists.freedesktop.org
> > > https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
> > 
> > -- 
> > 
> > With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.
> > 
> >                                   -- Rhett Butler
> > 
> 
> -- 
> Daniel Vetter
> Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
> http://blog.ffwll.ch
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