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 outdated MAINTAINER entries for these with people and git trees that 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@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: Maxime Ripard <maxime@xxxxxxxxxx> Maxime
