From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-7.3 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,MENTIONS_GIT_HOSTING,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS, USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 865DDC3A59F for ; Mon, 26 Aug 2019 15:12:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5675F2070B for ; Mon, 26 Aug 2019 15:12:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1732907AbfHZPMT (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Aug 2019 11:12:19 -0400 Received: from Galois.linutronix.de ([193.142.43.55]:40459 "EHLO Galois.linutronix.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1731256AbfHZPMS (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Aug 2019 11:12:18 -0400 Received: from p5de0b6c5.dip0.t-ipconnect.de ([93.224.182.197] helo=nanos) by Galois.linutronix.de with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA256:256) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1i2GfF-00079X-KF; Mon, 26 Aug 2019 17:12:13 +0200 Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2019 17:12:12 +0200 (CEST) From: Thomas Gleixner To: Lukas Bulwahn cc: Len Brown , x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RESEND][PATCH v2-resend] MAINTAINERS: mark simple firmware interface (SFI) obsolete In-Reply-To: <20190825173053.5649-1-lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com> Message-ID: References: <20190825173053.5649-1-lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.21 (DEB 202 2017-01-01) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Linutronix-Spam-Score: -1.0 X-Linutronix-Spam-Level: - X-Linutronix-Spam-Status: No , -1.0 points, 5.0 required, ALL_TRUSTED=-1,SHORTCIRCUIT=-0.0001 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Lukas, On Sun, 25 Aug 2019, Lukas Bulwahn wrote: > Len Brown has not been active in this part since around 2010. The recent > activity suggests that Thomas Gleixner and Jiang Lui were maintaining > this part of the kernel sources. Jiang Lui has not been active in the > kernel sources since beginning 2016. So, the maintainer's role seems to > be now with Thomas. Nice try. All I did there was converting the existing code to new interfaces and to use SPDX identifiers. You touched it last, you own it, is not really working. TBH. I have no clue what that is except that it's bitrotting. > SIMPLE FIRMWARE INTERFACE (SFI) > -M: Len Brown > -L: sfi-devel@simplefirmware.org > +M: Thomas Gleixner > W: http://simplefirmware.org/ > -T: git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-sfi-2.6.git > -S: Supported > +S: Obsolete > F: arch/x86/platform/sfi/ > F: drivers/sfi/ > F: include/linux/sfi*.h So why not removing this whole entry. arch/x86/platform/sfi is already covered by x86 and the driver cruft falls back to the people who are used to deal with dead drivers anyway. Thanks, tglx