Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932724AbdIHPkM (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Sep 2017 11:40:12 -0400 Received: from mail-yw0-f169.google.com ([209.85.161.169]:36032 "EHLO mail-yw0-f169.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932602AbdIHPkJ (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Sep 2017 11:40:09 -0400 X-Google-Smtp-Source: AOwi7QCkUmzmavwGNhpHE28+x3DkgAFTTIXsl0YxcsSQuVUpRZRJn1vZ0r9GeF5SqlARx11HwxNemJqOGql20hZkDIA= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20170908153528.17528-1-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> References: <20170908153528.17528-1-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> From: Sean Paul Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2017 11:39:44 -0400 X-Gmail-Original-Message-ID: Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Add dri-devel as a mailing list for anything fbdev To: Daniel Vetter Cc: LKML , Hans de Goede , Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , linux-fbdev , dri-devel , David Airlie , Daniel Vetter Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1813 Lines: 46 On Fri, Sep 8, 2017 at 11:35 AM, Daniel Vetter 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 > Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz > Cc: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org > Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org > Cc: Sean Paul Acked-by: Sean Paul > Cc: David Airlie > Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter > --- > 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 > +L: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org > L: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org > T: git git://github.com/bzolnier/linux.git > Q: http://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-fbdev/list/ > -- > 2.14.1 >