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From:   Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Date:   Tue, 1 Feb 2022 15:54:09 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/21] MAINTAINERS: Add entry for fbdev core
To:     Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
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        Intel Graphics Development <intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org>,
        Linux Fbdev development list <linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org>,
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        Claudio Suarez <cssk@net-c.es>,
        Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com>,
        Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>,
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On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 10:06 PM Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> 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 outdated MAINTAINER entries for these with people and git trees that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.

> Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>

Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
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                                -- Linus Torvalds