Given that the xf86-video-intel repo hasn't been been set up for PRs it seems (as opposed to lets say the xserver). I see in https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-intel the following people having made the most recent changes:
Ville Syrjälä: ville.syrj...@linux.intel.com (found via a commit message with sign-off tag) Eric Anholt: e...@anholt.net Adam Jackson: a...@nwnk.net Throw them a mail personally explaining them your question. On Sat, May 11, 2019 at 11:46 AM Adam Richter <adamricht...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, everyone on xorg-devel. > > I am wondering what the proper procedure is for submitting a patch or > merge request for xf86-video-intel. I had trouble using gitlab to do it, > so I sent the following email to intel-gfx and got no response, which > is unsurprising to me, given that I think that that list is essentially > for Linux DRM patches. > > The patch I am trying to submit, attached to this email, is the other > "assert(a && b) --> asert(a); assert(b)" patch that I mentioned (the > first one being for xserver). This one for xf86-video-intel, which I > believe is deprecated for Linux, but I imagine might still be used > in some circumstances. > > Anyhow, my original email to intel-gfx, appended here, covers > this in slightly more detail. Any advice on how I should proceed > is welcome. Thanks in advance for any thoughts on this. > > Adam > > ---------- Forwarded message --------- > From: Adam Richter <adamricht...@gmail.com> > Date: Mon, May 6, 2019 at 12:27 PM > Subject: Cannot submit merge request for xf86-video-intel > To: <intel-...@lists.freedesktop.org> > > > Hi, everyone. > > I am having trouble submitting a merge request on > gitlab.freedesktop.org for xf86-video-intel, even though doing so for > xserver works fine. The README for xf86-video-intel states that its > mailing list is intel-...@lists.freedesktop.org, so I am asking here, > even though most of the discussion on this list appears to be Linux > DRM patches. > > On gitlab.freedesktop.org, I forked a personal copy of > xf86-video-intel and pushed a change to it, but when I try to create a > new pull request, the web page only offers me the options of > submitting the merge request to one of two other users' tree. > > If I explicitly type "xorg/driver/xf86-video-intel" into the pull down > menu for "Target branch" (because the menu does have a box for > entering the text directly), the target repository name is updated, > but when I click on "Compare branches and continue", I get a screen > that states "You must select different branches," and has the target > and source both set to my repository and branch. > > My understanding is that, on Linux these days, the X server now has > xf86-video-modesetting merged in and normally uses that instead of > xf86-video-intel, but xf86-video-intel is not marked as "archived" on > gitlab.freedesktop.org, so I am guessing that changes to it are still > potentially useful on some other operating systems or in some other > unusual cases. > > In case anyone is curious about what the patch is, it is just > essentially mechanical conversions of "assert(a && b)" to "assert(a)" > and "assert(b)", hopefully for more efficient diagnosis of assertion > failure reports, which I have attached to this message for reference. > I submitting a similar merge request for the core X server a few days > ago, and it apparently got a positive feedback, and I expect it to be > merged shortly. > > Anyhow, any advice on how I should proceed, including simply > redirecting me to a more appropriate mailing list, would be > appreciated. Thanks for reading this far, and thanks in advance for > any guidance on this. > > Adam > _______________________________________________ > xorg-devel@lists.x.org: X.Org development > Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel > Info: https://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel -- Far away from the primal instinct, the song seems to fade away, the river get wider between your thoughts and the things we do and say. _______________________________________________ xorg-devel@lists.x.org: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: https://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
