Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754087AbYFALll (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 Jun 2008 07:41:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751674AbYFALlc (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 Jun 2008 07:41:32 -0400 Received: from fmmailgate05.web.de ([217.72.192.243]:33200 "EHLO fmmailgate05.web.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752009AbYFALlc convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 Jun 2008 07:41:32 -0400 Date: Sun, 01 Jun 2008 13:41:30 +0200 Message-Id: <299882843@web.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 From: devzero@web.de To: Adrian Bunk Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] MAINTAINERS: remove HGA FRAMEBUFFER DRIVER entry Organization: http://freemail.web.de/ X-Provags-Id: V01U2FsdGVkX189Rszvi/crnkNSq7WWFlox0uZdOdc+MHsj8AvUX/RFfXavA bnL5zDl5JBte09751U4NDvuhnBCyhfUOGYNjVCA2agTA7mZSD8= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2037 Lines: 62 addon: - the driver has issues - see http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9689 - after digging out author's recent email on the net and asking him, he confirmed, that he doesen`t maintain it anymore. he lost his hga hardware in 2001. also see bugzilla entry. furthermore: >hgafb: probe of hgafb.0 failed with error -22 >Device 'hgafb.0' does not have a release() function, it is broken and must be fixed. >WARNING: at drivers/base/core.c:107 device_release() as that bug hasn't been touched since january and kernel telling that it`s broken, i think it also should depend on BROKEN. Acked-by: Roland Kletzing List: linux-kernel Subject: [2.6 patch] MAINTAINERS: remove HGA FRAMEBUFFER DRIVER entry From: Adrian Bunk Date: 2008-05-19 22:09:28 Message-ID: 20080519220928.GW17716 () cs181133002 ! pp ! htv ! fi [Download message RAW] - maintainer has not been active for years - maintainer email bounces - URL no longer exists - covered by the FRAMEBUFFER LAYER entry Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk --- fc7a740aef47772e5417c71f52aa9726eb5c716d diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS index 2f74092..af69cab 100644 --- a/MAINTAINERS +++ b/MAINTAINERS @@ -1822,13 +1822,6 @@ M: zippel@linux-m68k.org L: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org S: Maintained -HGA FRAMEBUFFER DRIVER -P: Ferenc Bakonyi -M: fero@drama.obuda.kando.hu -L: linux-nvidia@lists.surfsouth.com -W: http://drama.obuda.kando.hu/~fero/cgi-bin/hgafb.shtml -S: Maintained - HID CORE LAYER P: Jiri Kosina M: jkosina@suse.cz _______________________________________________________________________ EINE F?R ALLE: die kostenlose WEB.DE-Plattform f?r Freunde und Deine Homepage mit eigenem Namen. Jetzt starten! http://unddu.de/?kid=kid@mf2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/