MAINTAINERS: Update drm-misc entry to match all drivers
Sui Jingfeng
suijingfeng at loongson.cn
Thu Sep 21 09:09:07 UTC 2023
Hi,
On 2023/9/21 16:47, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Adding Paul in Cc
>
> On Thu, Sep 21, 2023 at 04:25:50PM +0800, suijingfeng wrote:
>> On 2023/9/19 21:12, Maxime Ripard wrote:
>>> We've had a number of times when a patch slipped through and we couldn't
>>> pick them up either because our MAINTAINERS entry only covers the
>>> framework and thus we weren't Cc'd.
>>>
>>> Let's take another approach where we match everything, and remove all
>>> the drivers that are not maintained through drm-misc.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <mripard at kernel.org>
>>> Acked-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula at intel.com>
>>> ---
>>> MAINTAINERS | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++---
>>> 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
>>> index 90f13281d297..757d4f33e158 100644
>>> --- a/MAINTAINERS
>>> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
>>> @@ -6860,12 +6860,29 @@ M: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann at suse.de>
>>> S: Maintained
>>> W: https://01.org/linuxgraphics/gfx-docs/maintainer-tools/drm-misc.html
>>> T: git git://anongit.freedesktop.org/drm/drm-misc
>>> +F: Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/
>>> +F: Documentation/devicetree/bindings/gpu/
>>> F: Documentation/gpu/
>>> -F: drivers/gpu/drm/*
>>> +F: drivers/gpu/drm/
>>> F: drivers/gpu/vga/
>>> -F: include/drm/drm*
>>> +F: include/drm/drm
>>> F: include/linux/vga*
>>> -F: include/uapi/drm/drm*
>>> +F: include/uapi/drm/
>>> +X: drivers/gpu/drm/amd/
>>> +X: drivers/gpu/drm/armada/
>>> +X: drivers/gpu/drm/etnaviv/
>>> +X: drivers/gpu/drm/exynos/
>>> +X: drivers/gpu/drm/gma500/
>>> +X: drivers/gpu/drm/i915/
>>> +X: drivers/gpu/drm/imx/
>>> +X: drivers/gpu/drm/ingenic/
>>> +X: drivers/gpu/drm/kmb/
>>> +X: drivers/gpu/drm/mediatek/
>>> +X: drivers/gpu/drm/msm/
>>> +X: drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/
>>> +X: drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/
>>> +X: drivers/gpu/drm/renesas/
>>> +X: drivers/gpu/drm/tegra/
>>> DRM DRIVERS FOR ALLWINNER A10
>>> M: Maxime Ripard <mripard at kernel.org>
>>
>> Nice patch!
>>
>> Well, I'm just curious about why the drm/ingenic and drm/gma500 are not maintained through drm-misc?
>>
>> As far as I know:
>> 1) the drm/ingenic driver don't have a "T" annotation (location of the link).
> Yeah, I wasn't sure about that one indeed. I remained conservative since it's a
> sensitive topic for some.
>
> Paul, is drm/ingenic supposed to be maintained through drm-misc? Either way,
> could you clarify which git tree is supposed to merge those patches in
> MAINTAINERS?
>
>> 2) the "T" of drm/gma500 is "git git://github.com/patjak/drm-gma500", but the
> code for this link is not up to date.
>
> For gma500, I think it's mostly historical since it was there before drm-misc
> was a thing.
>
>> I think at least the drm/ingenic and drm/gma500 drivers are *actually*
>> maintained through drm-misc, So perhaps, these two drivers should not be
>> excluded. Am I correct?
> It's likely :)
>
> Either way, I think it can be solved/clarified later on
OK, that's sound fairly enough. I will respect you and Paul's opinion.
By the way, I also want to say that I think the drm/imb and various drm/imx drivers
are also belong to the drm-misc. They are also lack the "T" annotation.
Hopes someone can help to check that. Thanks.
Thanks for the patch.
> Maxime
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