Re: [PATCH] drm/fb-helper: Fix a locking bug in an error path

From: Thomas Zimmermann

Date: Tue Apr 07 2026 - 11:32:52 EST


Hi

Am 07.04.26 um 17:17 schrieb Bart Van Assche:
On 4/7/26 12:47 AM, Thomas Zimmermann wrote:
(cc: dri-devel)

Hi Thomas,

Is dri-devel the right mailing list to Cc for this patch? If so, how about adding an L: line to the drivers/gpu/drm/ entry in the MAINTAINERS
file? That entry currently doesn't have an L: line as one can see below:

It is covered by the general "DRM DRIVERS" entry and tools seem to get it right.

But yeah, that L: entry seems missing here. And it's so obviously missing that I wonder if it's intentional.

Best regards
Thomas



DRM DRIVERS AND MISC GPU PATCHES
M:    Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
M:    Maxime Ripard <mripard@xxxxxxxxxx>
M:    Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@xxxxxxx>
S:    Maintained
W: https://drm.pages.freedesktop.org/maintainer-tools/drm-misc.html
T:    git https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/misc/kernel.git
F:    Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/
F:    Documentation/devicetree/bindings/gpu/
F:    Documentation/gpu/
F:    drivers/gpu/drm/
F:    drivers/gpu/vga/
F:    include/drm/drm
F:    include/linux/vga*
F:    include/uapi/drm/
X:    drivers/gpu/drm/amd/
X:    drivers/gpu/drm/armada/
X:    drivers/gpu/drm/etnaviv/
X:    drivers/gpu/drm/exynos/
X:    drivers/gpu/drm/i915/
X:    drivers/gpu/drm/kmb/
X:    drivers/gpu/drm/mediatek/
X:    drivers/gpu/drm/msm/
X:    drivers/gpu/drm/nova/
X:    drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/
X:    drivers/gpu/drm/tegra/
X:    drivers/gpu/drm/tyr/
X:    drivers/gpu/drm/xe/

Thanks,

Bart.

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