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 outdated MAINTAINER entries for these with people and git trees that 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 <airl...@gmail.com> > Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nik...@linux.intel.com> > Cc: Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org> > Cc: Linux Fbdev development list <linux-fb...@vger.kernel.org> > Cc: Pavel Machek <pa...@ucw.cz> > Cc: Sam Ravnborg <s...@ravnborg.org> > Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> > Cc: Javier Martinez Canillas <javi...@redhat.com> > Cc: DRI Development <dri-de...@lists.freedesktop.org> > Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-ker...@vger.kernel.org> > Cc: Claudio Suarez <c...@net-c.es> > Cc: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkei...@ti.com> > Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <ge...@linux-m68k.org> > Cc: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmerm...@suse.de> > Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vet...@intel.com> > Cc: Sven Schnelle <sv...@stackframe.org> > Cc: Gerd Hoffmann <kra...@redhat.com> > Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vet...@intel.com>
Acked-by: Maxime Ripard <max...@cerno.tech> Maxime
