On Tue, Feb 01, 2022 at 11:19:54AM +0100, Thomas Zimmermann wrote: > > > Am 31.01.22 um 22:05 schrieb Daniel Vetter: > > 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 outdated MAINTAINER entries for these with people and git trees that 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@xxxxxxxxx> > > Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Cc: Linux Fbdev development list <linux-fbdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx> > > Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Cc: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@xxxxxxxxxx> > > Cc: DRI Development <dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Cc: Claudio Suarez <cssk@xxxxxxxx> > > Cc: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@xxxxxx> > > Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Cc: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@xxxxxxx> > > Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxxx> > > Cc: Sven Schnelle <svens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Cc: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@xxxxxxxxxx> > > Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxxx> > > Acked-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@xxxxxxx> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
