On Tuesday, October 03, 2017 11:24:39 AM Daniel Vetter wrote: > 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@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> > > > > Bartlomiej, ack from you too? > > Dave Airlie acked it on irc, so pushed to drm-misc-next. Fine with me. Best regards, -- Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Samsung R&D Institute Poland Samsung Electronics > -Daniel > > > > Thanks, Daniel > > > > > > > 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
