On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 18:32 +0900, Paul Mundt wrote: > As I find myself spending more time reviewing and merging fbdev patches > lately, and in an effort to offload some of the pressure on -mm, I've > opted to start a git tree to start collecting and merging fbdev changes. > > I plan to get a patchwork queue established for the list as well so that > things don't fall through the cracks (the link will be posted once it's > been established). People will be able to see the status of their patches > this way, rather than wondering whether things are being picked up, > overlooked, or forced through an alternate merge strategy (We have had > reasonable success with this with the SH tree, so here's hoping that the > same approach will work well here, too). > > I've already made a note about this to akpm off-list, so fbdev patches > that pop up outside of the regular channels that I may be unaware of > should still have a reasonable chance of being intercepted and rerouted > (although the mmotm is rather devoid of drivers/video churn at the > moment). > > I'll be combing through the list archives to see if there is anything > glaringly outstanding (the HDMI/EDID work comes to mind) and working on > getting the oustanding issues there resolved. If anyone has any > outstanding patches that have fallen through the cracks, now would be a > good time to provide pointers! > > Given the point that we're at with .38 bits now and a cursory look at > -next shows that there's already quite a bit of drivers/video churn > coming in from git trees. It will likely take a few cycles to get people > used to the idea of there being an active fbdev tree to merge through, > but with any luck it will be a fairly natural transition. I'll be > contacting and working with git tree owners separately so there aren't > any surprises. > > The tree can be found at: > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/fbdev-2.6.git > Could this be added to the MAINTAINERS file? FRAMEBUFFER LAYER L: linux-fbdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx W: http://linux-fbdev.sourceforge.net/ +T: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/fbdev-2.6.git S: Orphan F: Documentation/fb/ F: drivers/video/fb* > Stephen, if you could add this with the master branch to -next, it would > be appreciated. For the moment I expect most of the patches to follow a > fairly linear line of development, but there may be cause for topic > branches as new (or contested) patch sets arise. > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fbdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
