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SubjectRe: [PATCH 01/21] MAINTAINERS: Add entry for fbdev core
On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 10:05:32PM +0100, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> 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 outdated MAINTAINER entries for these with people and git trees that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@gmail.com>
> Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com>
> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
> Cc: Linux Fbdev development list <linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org>
> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> Cc: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@redhat.com>
> Cc: DRI Development <dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org>
> Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
> Cc: Claudio Suarez <cssk@net-c.es>
> Cc: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com>
> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
> Cc: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>
> Cc: Sven Schnelle <svens@stackframe.org>
> Cc: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>

Acked-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime@cerno.tech>

Maxime

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