Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 3 Oct 2017 11:24:39 +0200 | From | Daniel Vetter <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Add dri-devel as a mailing list for anything fbdev |
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On Mon, Oct 02, 2017 at 10:29:26AM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote: > On Fri, Sep 08, 2017 at 11:39:44AM -0400, Sean Paul wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 8, 2017 at 11:35 AM, Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> wrote: > > > fbdev is in maintenance only, except that it's still used by drm > > > through the drm fbdev emulation, to be able to use fbcon. And people > > > might want to sometimes extend fbcon to enable new features for drm > > > drivers, e.g. Hans' panel orientation work. > > > > > > The problem is that when those patches only touch fbdev code they'll > > > never show up on drm developer's radar, which means we end up with > > > designs that don't really fit whell into the full stack. That happened > > > a bit with the panel orientation work, where an fbcon patch made it > > > into 4.14, implementing a design that won't really work on the drm > > > side. Which means we now have to redo things, and on top coordinate 2 > > > subsystem trees. > > > > > > Since fbdev is super low-volume we can prevent this in the future by > > > simply adding the dri-devel mailing list to the fbdev subsystem. > > > > > > Cc: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com> > > > Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com> > > > Cc: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org > > > Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org > > > Cc: Sean Paul <seanpaul@chromium.org> > > > > Acked-by: Sean Paul <seanpaul@chromium.org> > > Bartlomiej, ack from you too?
Dave Airlie acked it on irc, so pushed to drm-misc-next. -Daniel > > Thanks, Daniel > > > > > Cc: David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie> > > > Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com> > > > --- > > > MAINTAINERS | 1 + > > > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) > > > > > > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS > > > index ba51d0906955..af9766a32949 100644 > > > --- a/MAINTAINERS > > > +++ b/MAINTAINERS > > > @@ -5391,6 +5391,7 @@ F: drivers/net/wan/sdla.c > > > > > > FRAMEBUFFER LAYER > > > M: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com> > > > +L: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org > > > L: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org > > > T: git git://github.com/bzolnier/linux.git > > > Q: http://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-fbdev/list/ > > > -- > > > 2.14.1 > > > > > -- > Daniel Vetter > Software Engineer, Intel Corporation > http://blog.ffwll.ch
-- Daniel Vetter Software Engineer, Intel Corporation http://blog.ffwll.ch
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