Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Lukas Bulwahn <> | Subject | [PATCH v3-RESEND] MAINTAINERS: mark simple firmware interface (SFI) obsolete | Date | Sat, 14 Dec 2019 09:04:12 +0100 |
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Len Brown has not been active in this part since around 2010 and confirmed that he is not maintaining this part of the kernel sources anymore and the git log suggests that nobody is actively maintaining it.
The referenced git tree does not exist. Instead, I found an sfi branch in Len's kernel git repository, but that has not been updated since 2014; so that is not worth to be mentioned in MAINTAINERS now anymore either.
Len Brown expects no further systems to be shipped with SFI, so we can mark it obsolete and schedule it for deletion.
This change was motivated after I found that I could not send any mails to the sfi-devel mailing list, and that the mailing list does not exist anymore.
Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com> ---
Thomas, please pick this _reworked_ patch now. thanks.
v1: https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/1033696/ - got Acked-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> v2: - also change status to Obsolete
v2-resend: - applies cleanly to v5.3-rc5 and next-20190823
v3: - simply remove Len Brown and do not try to find a possible replacement, as Thomas requested.
v3-resend: - applies cleanly on v5.5-rc1, current master (e31736d9fae8) and next-20191213
MAINTAINERS | 5 +---- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS index b540ecc4e2a3..62a30f170d94 100644 --- a/MAINTAINERS +++ b/MAINTAINERS @@ -15033,11 +15033,8 @@ F: drivers/video/fbdev/sm712* F: Documentation/fb/sm712fb.rst SIMPLE FIRMWARE INTERFACE (SFI) -M: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> -L: sfi-devel@simplefirmware.org W: http://simplefirmware.org/ -T: git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-sfi-2.6.git -S: Supported +S: Obsolete F: arch/x86/platform/sfi/ F: drivers/sfi/ F: include/linux/sfi*.h -- 2.17.1
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