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 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AE0CC28CF5 for ; Wed, 26 Jan 2022 11:18:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S240592AbiAZLS4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Jan 2022 06:18:56 -0500 Received: from mout.gmx.net ([212.227.17.20]:48089 "EHLO mout.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S233442AbiAZLSz (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Jan 2022 06:18:55 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=gmx.net; s=badeba3b8450; t=1643195900; bh=+PuqQOa8ZIasq9nywZV54YoR4zKFhnHcgqEzAOKfTdA=; h=X-UI-Sender-Class:Date:Subject:To:Cc:References:From:In-Reply-To; b=K/RNfBZN9xjeHAexpSxt3QsddHquW+fJOSFxykEQ+0jJMiCNcDiYTFhmXQTLoc1M/ V3rwgNYvhVrxt/5aIsN25LE/hXO7HqOvN8ONSQLp0fvs6bJqEKUWf8k6oCen50jKtd 3vxkYF2d0tQD/UfgjlqHfR7ro2AdUmhzrvLgpYZI= X-UI-Sender-Class: 01bb95c1-4bf8-414a-932a-4f6e2808ef9c Received: from [192.168.20.60] ([92.116.143.57]) by mail.gmx.net (mrgmx104 [212.227.17.168]) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 1MZktj-1mjJ3E3hOJ-00WjWx; Wed, 26 Jan 2022 12:18:19 +0100 Message-ID: Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2022 12:17:08 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/91.3.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/4] fbtft: Unorphan the driver Content-Language: en-US To: Daniel Vetter , Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Andy Shevchenko , Andy Shevchenko , linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org, Michael Hennerich , linux-staging@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, Phillip Potter , Carlis , Lee Jones , Heiner Kallweit References: <20220125202118.63362-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> <20220125202118.63362-2-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> From: Helge Deller In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Provags-ID: V03:K1:TT1QJY2gC8uB7kkLOHzSTdzit3og0cbZ6iIm4K+D70BWn9LFy20 l82OzF7oSlgOVk10ARiXac/4IMSPwdE94cHTsIYXjVflcT4ta0BeI7P90ST1AdNSDoeG8KD g5vbiwlbnl1KldKuVDL7LnVecVnEwdpoMTHL4ohOG/+YJHxM/whCTfoJc61b90H3pvhHOpj 6nGxFKXFupb5oRYAAP8oQ== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V03:K0:mTSrC5H5Tvo=:bA6ryL8DJGrwAfD6QK0RLg PukffV8q/3LZpSbB+HmwmiWEHRsqaExtyg9RhnZwx7aq5fhxQ1y1KMEIapBfH2j/pdXpMSrNE i2CMHd/OQ4Aj6ilbtYnw5wsK3diaplPrs2Vg9ajkP/kXgP4C8jm1hwP+XDvfjaWiZyYsIogPk EN70Fa4lMxKOmioQHQkpy5R1dknyBOdKbajldqX043Zo0P5qooY12udATTo9fOsZNmnWUD3nr SHAQ2KCYyIi+LOWI5aiZcicDzj6OhEHuFOLCrVLup5aYq0dt7X8GezZAmf7X0/yVZzhlUzv84 nioT3TNzcheckIsoKJLxmFduYpBPhSINodSZv6D8UBTGg3xGb5GTbzY6ZjGdInBFPObcaa4of arikV7daPmMyph8GKLZmK0PHxJrOnmUE5BVCLvPSWolv1n6ee2TZscHN1BhDq6u4uT7dlF0nB kPp+jlEWM85BRuvr2VwAtoIIeLnePv9iA5JrS5nyN267eszqDU6S4XJr1WUpy1f1Sn2xlA6SS OZpikJ+RaQSwXoLY4PFsAXPMiOekOHoCc9qWvx0p1e1dRYp4FvIFYXG0sUJQ0FURpUUkW3Z0M ApUhAJxP0BkeVBxxEoZde8KeYRp/cgYrMGdjxuBDI5pzmd5O0q9QaeBVf3r8wKQpY456xBCTF VHrd+XHLbUlTablmXGi691iTQb/KcuDCyUbpdR4JHBn17KvVdte5nSIMIZsPsbUpukXuyujT+ Y2plKZog6KcZP3artQeQzSIRefI29Iu0TXTdQcea5397zAEPTvAbD9xL+zr/OiejpOJN1CS7j ddC3tSorFAFdzJpGJCZtFOvWnRD++UmbxMpzqB84ojW3XvZ54AO71u4IDMmwT6uTUAU4yhxDE A3AIwVvIZ77N5T2vax9zfhKwIAYMYfsMrQnD7J0tWB86G/Qtk5lesBPQCG0SWNgtiY6KoLw7r 29RP9atqlPlcMlWv9EoXUhvyDZNRRx2h2PJerMYW4XXWKz8SNmcXbT5cW4tfwP4XeKzyVELp1 +jpg9VcZHGk20iTk2RAJjw3Kc+Q2+Tb/FUOgx5rg/PzI6yPMIMgbv7ya+DRIsda/uZXtlGdKA sTLxv3C0F6l3IHoD9uzlJscnzfEAYLa1FQ1 Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 1/26/22 11:31, Daniel Vetter wrote: > On Wed, Jan 26, 2022 at 9:31 AM Greg Kroah-Hartman > wrote: >> >> On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 10:21:14PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote: >>> Let's maintain occasional fixes to the fbtft driver. >>> >>> Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko >>> --- >>> MAINTAINERS | 4 +++- >>> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) >>> >>> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS >>> index ea3e6c914384..16e614606ac1 100644 >>> --- a/MAINTAINERS >>> +++ b/MAINTAINERS >>> @@ -7372,9 +7372,11 @@ F: Documentation/fault-injection/ >>> F: lib/fault-inject.c >>> >>> FBTFT Framebuffer drivers >>> +M: Andy Shevchenko >>> L: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org >>> L: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org >>> -S: Orphan >>> +S: Maintained >>> +T: git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/andy/linux-fbt= ft.git >> >> I'm ok with the files moving if the dri developers agree with it. It's >> up to them, not me. > > On one hand I'm happy anytime someone volunteers to help out. > > On the other hand ... why does it have to be resurrecting fbdev? > There's an entire community of people who really know graphics and > display and spent considerable amount of effort on creating useful and > documented helpers for pretty much anything you might ever want to do. > And somehow we have to go back to typing out things the hard way, with > full verbosity, for an uapi that distros are abandoning (e.g. even for > sdl the direction is to run it on top of drm with a compat layer, > afaiui fedora is completely ditching any userspace that still even > uses /dev/fb/0). And yes I know there's still some gaps in drm, > largely for display features which were really en vogue about 20 years > ago. And we're happy to add that support, if someone who still has > such hardware can put in the little bit of work needed ... > > I don't get this. You are describing a transitioning over to DRM - which is Ok. But on that way there is no need to ignore, deny or even kill usage scenar= ios which are different compared to your usage scenarios (e.g. embedded device= s, old platforms, slow devices, slow busses, no 3D hardware features, low-color devices, ...). Helge