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 outdated MAINTAINER entries for these with people and git trees that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 <[email protected]>
> Cc: Jani Nikula <[email protected]>
> Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
> Cc: Linux Fbdev development list <[email protected]>
> Cc: Pavel Machek <[email protected]>
> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <[email protected]>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
> Cc: Javier Martinez Canillas <[email protected]>
> Cc: DRI Development <[email protected]>
> Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <[email protected]>
> Cc: Claudio Suarez <[email protected]>
> Cc: Tomi Valkeinen <[email protected]>
> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <[email protected]>
> Cc: Thomas Zimmermann <[email protected]>
> Cc: Daniel Vetter <[email protected]>
> Cc: Sven Schnelle <[email protected]>
> Cc: Gerd Hoffmann <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <[email protected]>

Acked-by: Maxime Ripard <[email protected]>

Maxime

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