On Fri, Sep 8, 2017 at 11:35 AM, Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@xxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: linux-fbdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Cc: dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Cc: Sean Paul <seanpaul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Sean Paul <seanpaul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: David Airlie <airlied@xxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxxx> > --- > 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@xxxxxxxxxxx> > +L: dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > L: linux-fbdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > T: git git://github.com/bzolnier/linux.git > Q: http://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-fbdev/list/ > -- > 2.14.1 > _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
