From: Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch> To: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>, "airlied@gmail.com" <airlied@gmail.com>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Add Helge as fbdev maintainer Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2022 10:48:01 +0100 [thread overview] Message-ID: <CAKMK7uFnhK7pnfiMzz-UY1UYv3WG=sVOCe24bz0xROhQOxY+eA@mail.gmail.com> (raw) In-Reply-To: <YeG8ydoJNWWkGrTb@ls3530> Hi Helge On Fri, Jan 14, 2022 at 7:18 PM Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> wrote: > > The fbdev layer is orphaned, but seems to need some care. > So I'd like to step up as new maintainer. > > Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> > > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS > index 5d0cd537803a..ce47dbc467cc 100644 > --- a/MAINTAINERS > +++ b/MAINTAINERS > @@ -7583,11 +7583,12 @@ W: http://floatingpoint.sourceforge.net/emulator/index.html > F: arch/x86/math-emu/ > > FRAMEBUFFER LAYER > -L: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org > +M: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> > L: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org > -S: Orphan > +L: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org > +S: Maintained > Q: http://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-fbdev/list/ > -T: git git://anongit.freedesktop.org/drm/drm-misc > +T: git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/linux-fbdev.git Maybe don't rush maintainer changes in over the w/e without even bothering to get any input from the people who've been maintaining it before. Because the status isn't entirely correct, fbdev core code and fbcon and all that has been maintained, but in bugfixes only mode. And there's very solid&important reasons to keep merging these patches through a drm tree, because that's where all the driver development happens, and hence also all the testing (e.g. the drm test suite has some fbdev tests - the only automated ones that exist to my knowledge - and we run them in CI). So moving that into an obscure new tree which isn't even in linux-next yet is no good at all. Now fbdev driver bugfixes is indeed practically orphaned and I very much welcome anyone stepping up for that, but the simplest approach there would be to just get drm-misc commit rights and push the oddball bugfix in there directly. But also if you want to do your own pull requests to Linus for that I don't care and there's really no interference, so whatever floats. But any code that is relevant for drm drivers really needs to in through drm trees, nothing else makes much sense. I guess you're first action as newly minted maintainer is going to be to clean up the confusion you just created. Cheers, Daniel > F: Documentation/fb/ > F: drivers/video/ > F: include/linux/fb.h -- Daniel Vetter Software Engineer, Intel Corporation http://blog.ffwll.ch
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From: Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch> To: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>, "airlied@gmail.com" <airlied@gmail.com>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Add Helge as fbdev maintainer Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2022 10:48:01 +0100 [thread overview] Message-ID: <CAKMK7uFnhK7pnfiMzz-UY1UYv3WG=sVOCe24bz0xROhQOxY+eA@mail.gmail.com> (raw) In-Reply-To: <YeG8ydoJNWWkGrTb@ls3530> Hi Helge On Fri, Jan 14, 2022 at 7:18 PM Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> wrote: > > The fbdev layer is orphaned, but seems to need some care. > So I'd like to step up as new maintainer. > > Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> > > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS > index 5d0cd537803a..ce47dbc467cc 100644 > --- a/MAINTAINERS > +++ b/MAINTAINERS > @@ -7583,11 +7583,12 @@ W: http://floatingpoint.sourceforge.net/emulator/index.html > F: arch/x86/math-emu/ > > FRAMEBUFFER LAYER > -L: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org > +M: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> > L: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org > -S: Orphan > +L: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org > +S: Maintained > Q: http://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-fbdev/list/ > -T: git git://anongit.freedesktop.org/drm/drm-misc > +T: git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/linux-fbdev.git Maybe don't rush maintainer changes in over the w/e without even bothering to get any input from the people who've been maintaining it before. Because the status isn't entirely correct, fbdev core code and fbcon and all that has been maintained, but in bugfixes only mode. And there's very solid&important reasons to keep merging these patches through a drm tree, because that's where all the driver development happens, and hence also all the testing (e.g. the drm test suite has some fbdev tests - the only automated ones that exist to my knowledge - and we run them in CI). So moving that into an obscure new tree which isn't even in linux-next yet is no good at all. Now fbdev driver bugfixes is indeed practically orphaned and I very much welcome anyone stepping up for that, but the simplest approach there would be to just get drm-misc commit rights and push the oddball bugfix in there directly. But also if you want to do your own pull requests to Linus for that I don't care and there's really no interference, so whatever floats. But any code that is relevant for drm drivers really needs to in through drm trees, nothing else makes much sense. I guess you're first action as newly minted maintainer is going to be to clean up the confusion you just created. Cheers, Daniel > F: Documentation/fb/ > F: drivers/video/ > F: include/linux/fb.h -- Daniel Vetter Software Engineer, Intel Corporation http://blog.ffwll.ch
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-01-17 9:48 UTC|newest] Thread overview: 149+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top 2022-01-14 18:11 [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Add Helge as fbdev maintainer Helge Deller 2022-01-14 18:31 ` Geert Uytterhoeven 2022-01-14 18:31 ` Geert Uytterhoeven 2022-01-17 9:48 ` Daniel Vetter [this message] 2022-01-17 9:48 ` Daniel Vetter 2022-01-17 10:02 ` Daniel Vetter 2022-01-17 10:02 ` Daniel Vetter 2022-01-17 10:19 ` Javier Martinez Canillas 2022-01-17 10:19 ` Javier Martinez Canillas 2022-01-17 10:49 ` Jani Nikula 2022-01-17 10:57 ` Helge Deller 2022-01-17 12:15 ` Helge Deller 2022-01-17 12:15 ` Helge Deller 2022-01-17 12:57 ` Gerd Hoffmann 2022-01-17 12:57 ` Gerd Hoffmann 2022-01-17 13:29 ` Geert Uytterhoeven 2022-01-17 13:29 ` Geert Uytterhoeven 2022-01-17 13:51 ` Thomas Zimmermann 2022-01-17 13:51 ` Thomas Zimmermann 2022-01-17 14:10 ` Geert Uytterhoeven 2022-01-17 14:10 ` Geert Uytterhoeven 2022-01-17 14:47 ` Helge Deller 2022-01-17 14:47 ` Helge Deller 2022-01-17 15:03 ` Daniel Vetter 2022-01-17 15:03 ` Daniel Vetter 2022-01-17 20:17 ` Helge Deller 2022-01-17 20:17 ` Helge Deller 2022-01-18 6:29 ` Gerd Hoffmann 2022-01-18 6:29 ` Gerd Hoffmann 2022-01-18 8:10 ` Geert Uytterhoeven 2022-01-18 8:10 ` Geert Uytterhoeven 2022-01-18 11:44 ` Daniel Vetter 2022-01-18 11:44 ` Daniel Vetter 2022-01-18 14:23 ` Thomas Zimmermann 2022-01-18 14:23 ` Thomas Zimmermann 2022-01-18 14:39 ` Simon Ser 2022-01-18 14:39 ` Simon Ser 2022-01-20 12:50 ` Gerd Hoffmann 2022-01-20 12:50 ` Gerd Hoffmann 2022-01-21 8:55 ` Daniel Vetter 2022-01-21 8:55 ` Daniel Vetter 2022-01-24 18:38 ` Geert Uytterhoeven 2022-01-24 18:38 ` Geert Uytterhoeven 2022-01-24 18:50 ` Daniel Vetter 2022-01-24 18:50 ` Daniel Vetter 2022-01-24 19:05 ` Thomas Zimmermann 2022-01-24 19:05 ` Thomas Zimmermann 2022-01-18 8:20 ` Helge Deller 2022-01-18 8:20 ` Helge Deller 2022-01-18 9:16 ` Gerd Hoffmann 2022-01-18 9:16 ` Gerd Hoffmann 2022-01-18 10:13 ` Helge Deller 2022-01-18 10:13 ` Helge Deller 2022-01-18 10:44 ` Helge Deller 2022-01-18 10:44 ` Helge Deller 2022-01-18 12:48 ` Gerd Hoffmann 2022-01-18 12:48 ` Gerd Hoffmann 2022-01-17 15:05 ` Thomas Zimmermann 2022-01-17 15:05 ` Thomas Zimmermann 2022-01-17 16:05 ` Helge Deller 2022-01-17 16:05 ` Helge Deller 2022-01-17 14:53 ` Thomas Zimmermann 2022-01-17 14:53 ` Thomas Zimmermann 2022-01-18 6:11 ` Gerd Hoffmann 2022-01-18 6:11 ` Gerd Hoffmann 2022-01-18 8:09 ` Helge Deller 2022-01-18 8:09 ` Helge Deller 2022-01-17 15:00 ` Daniel Vetter 2022-01-17 15:00 ` Daniel Vetter 2022-01-17 15:42 ` Helge Deller 2022-01-17 15:42 ` Helge Deller 2022-01-17 15:56 ` Daniel Vetter 2022-01-17 15:56 ` Daniel Vetter 2022-01-17 15:58 ` Thomas Zimmermann 2022-01-17 15:58 ` Thomas Zimmermann 2022-01-17 16:21 ` Helge Deller 2022-01-17 16:21 ` Helge Deller 2022-01-17 16:38 ` Daniel Vetter 2022-01-17 16:38 ` Daniel Vetter 2022-01-17 17:19 ` Helge Deller 2022-01-17 17:19 ` Helge Deller 2022-01-17 19:45 ` Helge Deller 2022-01-17 19:45 ` Helge Deller 2022-01-17 21:55 ` Ilia Mirkin 2022-01-17 21:55 ` Ilia Mirkin 2022-01-18 11:14 ` Daniel Vetter 2022-01-18 11:14 ` Daniel Vetter 2022-01-18 14:14 ` Thomas Zimmermann 2022-01-18 14:14 ` Thomas Zimmermann 2022-01-17 21:40 ` Jani Nikula 2022-01-17 21:40 ` Jani Nikula 2022-01-17 21:44 ` Helge Deller 2022-01-17 21:44 ` Helge Deller 2022-01-18 8:38 ` Jani Nikula 2022-01-18 8:38 ` Jani Nikula 2022-01-18 8:41 ` Geert Uytterhoeven 2022-01-18 8:41 ` Geert Uytterhoeven 2022-01-18 11:41 ` Daniel Vetter 2022-01-18 11:41 ` Daniel Vetter 2022-01-18 12:11 ` Simon Ser 2022-01-18 12:11 ` Simon Ser 2022-01-18 8:54 ` Helge Deller 2022-01-18 8:54 ` Helge Deller 2022-01-18 9:33 ` Javier Martinez Canillas 2022-01-18 9:33 ` Javier Martinez Canillas 2022-01-18 9:45 ` Geert Uytterhoeven 2022-01-18 9:45 ` Geert Uytterhoeven 2022-01-18 11:18 ` Daniel Vetter 2022-01-18 11:18 ` Daniel Vetter 2022-01-18 11:42 ` Helge Deller 2022-01-18 11:42 ` Helge Deller 2022-01-18 8:41 ` Helge Deller 2022-01-18 8:41 ` Helge Deller 2022-01-18 9:12 ` Helge Deller 2022-01-18 9:12 ` Helge Deller 2022-01-17 11:16 ` Thomas Zimmermann 2022-01-17 11:33 ` Helge Deller 2022-01-17 12:13 ` Thomas Zimmermann 2022-01-17 18:47 ` Sven Schnelle 2022-01-18 8:33 ` Pekka Paalanen 2022-01-18 8:33 ` Pekka Paalanen 2022-01-18 9:53 ` Gerd Hoffmann 2022-01-18 9:53 ` Gerd Hoffmann 2022-01-18 11:22 ` Daniel Vetter 2022-01-18 11:22 ` Daniel Vetter 2022-01-18 12:07 ` Gerd Hoffmann 2022-01-18 12:07 ` Gerd Hoffmann 2022-01-19 8:39 ` Pekka Paalanen 2022-01-19 8:39 ` Pekka Paalanen 2022-01-20 9:06 ` Geert Uytterhoeven 2022-01-20 9:06 ` Geert Uytterhoeven 2022-01-20 11:32 ` Daniel Vetter 2022-01-20 11:32 ` Daniel Vetter 2022-01-20 12:13 ` Geert Uytterhoeven 2022-01-20 12:13 ` Geert Uytterhoeven 2022-01-20 12:33 ` Daniel Vetter 2022-01-20 12:33 ` Daniel Vetter 2022-01-20 12:46 ` Geert Uytterhoeven 2022-01-20 12:46 ` Geert Uytterhoeven 2022-01-24 18:50 ` Geert Uytterhoeven 2022-01-24 18:50 ` Geert Uytterhoeven 2022-01-24 19:37 ` Daniel Vetter 2022-01-24 19:37 ` Daniel Vetter 2022-01-20 11:51 ` Gerd Hoffmann 2022-01-20 11:51 ` Gerd Hoffmann 2022-01-18 8:58 ` Michel Dänzer 2022-01-18 10:05 ` Sven Schnelle 2022-01-18 10:05 ` Sven Schnelle 2022-01-18 14:06 ` Thomas Zimmermann
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