[PATCH 01/21] MAINTAINERS: Add entry for fbdev core

Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Tue Feb 1 10:45:14 UTC 2022


On Tue, Feb 01, 2022 at 11:19:54AM +0100, Thomas Zimmermann wrote:
> 
> 
> Am 31.01.22 um 22:05 schrieb Daniel Vetter:
> > Ever since Tomi extracted the core code in 2014 it's been defacto me
> > maintaining this, with help from others from dri-devel and sometimes
> > Linus (but those are mostly merge conflicts):
> > 
> > $ git shortlog -ns  drivers/video/fbdev/core/ | head -n5
> >      35  Daniel Vetter
> >      23  Linus Torvalds
> >      10  Hans de Goede
> >       9  Dave Airlie
> >       6  Peter Rosin
> > 
> > I think ideally we'd also record that the various firmware fb drivers
> > (efifb, vesafb, ...) are also maintained in drm-misc because for the
> > past few years the patches have either been to fix handover issues
> > with drm drivers, or caused handover issues with drm drivers. So any
> > other tree just doesn't make sense. But also, there's plenty of
> > outdated MAINTAINER entries for these with people and git trees that
> > haven't been active in years, so maybe let's just leave them alone.
> > And furthermore distros are now adopting simpledrm as the firmware fb
> > driver, so hopefully the need to care about the fbdev firmware drivers
> > will go down going forward.
> > 
> > Note that drm-misc is group maintained, I expect that to continue like
> > we've done before, so no new expectations that patches all go through
> > my hands. That would be silly. This also means I'm happy to put any
> > other volunteer's name in the M: line, but otherwise git log says I'm
> > the one who's stuck with this.
> > 
> > Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied at gmail.com>
> > Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula at linux.intel.com>
> > Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org>
> > Cc: Linux Fbdev development list <linux-fbdev at vger.kernel.org>
> > Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel at ucw.cz>
> > Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam at ravnborg.org>
> > Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
> > Cc: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm at redhat.com>
> > Cc: DRI Development <dri-devel at lists.freedesktop.org>
> > Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org>
> > Cc: Claudio Suarez <cssk at net-c.es>
> > Cc: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen at ti.com>
> > Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert at linux-m68k.org>
> > Cc: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann at suse.de>
> > Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at intel.com>
> > Cc: Sven Schnelle <svens at stackframe.org>
> > Cc: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel at redhat.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at intel.com>
> 
> Acked-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann at suse.de>

Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>


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