From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751856AbdJCJYs (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Oct 2017 05:24:48 -0400 Received: from mail-wm0-f68.google.com ([74.125.82.68]:34875 "EHLO mail-wm0-f68.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751557AbdJCJYn (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Oct 2017 05:24:43 -0400 X-Google-Smtp-Source: AOwi7QCvd9+esyCQDIBwlb03etE+noc1SpZFNq9F3AR8IZzBbsFLiL98f4lAdBPLTo+JWCms04dSfQ== Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2017 11:24:39 +0200 From: Daniel Vetter To: Sean Paul , LKML , Hans de Goede , Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , linux-fbdev , dri-devel , David Airlie , Daniel Vetter Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Add dri-devel as a mailing list for anything fbdev Message-ID: <20171003092439.st4c6ook5xbzefkh@phenom.ffwll.local> Mail-Followup-To: Sean Paul , LKML , Hans de Goede , Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , linux-fbdev , dri-devel , David Airlie , Daniel Vetter References: <20170908153528.17528-1-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> <20171002082926.di5qyio7egwfimxc@phenom.ffwll.local> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20171002082926.di5qyio7egwfimxc@phenom.ffwll.local> X-Operating-System: Linux phenom 4.12.0-1-amd64 User-Agent: NeoMutt/20170609 (1.8.3) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Oct 02, 2017 at 10:29:26AM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote: > On Fri, Sep 08, 2017 at 11:39:44AM -0400, Sean Paul wrote: > > 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 > > Bartlomiej, ack from you too? Dave Airlie acked it on irc, so pushed to drm-misc-next. -Daniel > > Thanks, Daniel > > > > > 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 > > > > > -- > Daniel Vetter > Software Engineer, Intel Corporation > http://blog.ffwll.ch -- Daniel Vetter Software Engineer, Intel Corporation http://blog.ffwll.ch