On Fri, Sep 8, 2017 at 11:35 AM, Daniel Vetter <[email protected]> wrote: > fbdev is in maintenance only, except that it's still used by drm > through the drm fbdev emulation, to be able to use fbcon. And people > might want to sometimes extend fbcon to enable new features for drm > drivers, e.g. Hans' panel orientation work. > > The problem is that when those patches only touch fbdev code they'll > never show up on drm developer's radar, which means we end up with > designs that don't really fit whell into the full stack. That happened > a bit with the panel orientation work, where an fbcon patch made it > into 4.14, implementing a design that won't really work on the drm > side. Which means we now have to redo things, and on top coordinate 2 > subsystem trees. > > Since fbdev is super low-volume we can prevent this in the future by > simply adding the dri-devel mailing list to the fbdev subsystem. > > Cc: Hans de Goede <[email protected]> > Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > Cc: Sean Paul <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Sean Paul <[email protected]> > Cc: David Airlie <[email protected]> > Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <[email protected]> > --- > MAINTAINERS | 1 + > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) > > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS > index ba51d0906955..af9766a32949 100644 > --- a/MAINTAINERS > +++ b/MAINTAINERS > @@ -5391,6 +5391,7 @@ F: drivers/net/wan/sdla.c > > FRAMEBUFFER LAYER > M: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <[email protected]> > +L: [email protected] > L: [email protected] > T: git git://github.com/bzolnier/linux.git > Q: http://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-fbdev/list/ > -- > 2.14.1 >
