On 1/18/22 09:38, Jani Nikula wrote: > On Mon, 17 Jan 2022, Helge Deller <deller@xxxxxx> wrote: >> On 1/17/22 22:40, Jani Nikula wrote: >>> On Mon, 17 Jan 2022, Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@xxxxxxx> wrote: >>>> Seems like few people read linux-fbdev these days. >>> >>> How much traffic is there to linux-fbdev that is *not* Cc'd to dri-devel >>> also? >> >> Doesn't seem like much traffic - which IMHO is OK for such a tree with >> mostly just maintenance patches. >> >>> Do we still need a separate linux-fbdev mailing list at all? >> >> Yes. I want to have it seperate of dri-devel. >> Actually I'd prefer to drop dri-devel from the list where patches >> for fbdev are sent... > > Disagreed. If anything, this thread shows we can't have fbdev and drm in > silos of their own. Patches to fbdev usually don't affect DRM. Patches which affect DRM needs to through to dri-devel. In addition this would take the burden of the dri-developers to receive unrelated fbdev driver updates and patches. > Also, if the patches continue to get merged through drm-misc, they need > to be sent to dri-devel. Helge
