Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Add dri-devel as a mailing list for anything fbdev

[Daniel Vetter]

On Fri, Sep 08, 2017 at 11:39:44AM -0400, Sean Paul wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 8, 2017 at 11:35 AM, Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx> 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 <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: linux-fbdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Cc: dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Cc: Sean Paul <seanpaul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Acked-by: Sean Paul <seanpaul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Bartlomiej, ack from you too?

Thanks, Daniel
> 
> > Cc: David Airlie <airlied@xxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  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 <b.zolnierkie@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > +L:     dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >  L:     linux-fbdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >  T:     git git://github.com/bzolnier/linux.git
> >  Q:     http://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-fbdev/list/
> > --
> > 2.14.1
> >

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Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
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