[PATCH] MAINTAINERS: update simple firmware interface (SFI) section entry

[PATCH] MAINTAINERS: update simple firmware interface (SFI) section entry

[Lukas Bulwahn]

Len Brown has not been active in this part since around 2010. The recent
activity suggests that Thomas Gleixner and Jiang Lui were maintaining
this part of the kernel sources. Jiang Lui has not been active in the
kernel sources since beginning 2016. So, the maintainer's role seems to
be now with Thomas.

The referenced git tree does not exist. Instead, I found an sfi branch
in Len's kernel git repository, but that has not been updated since 2014;
so that is not worth to be mentioned in MAINTAINERS now anymore either.

This change was motivated after I found that I could not send any mails
to the sfi-devel mailing list, and that the mailing list does not exist
anymore.

Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
---

Len, please ack this patch.

Thomas, if you are maintaining SFI, please pick this.

 MAINTAINERS | 4 +---
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 887b4b9fb6c4..e2d370910a07 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -13841,10 +13841,8 @@ F:	drivers/video/fbdev/sm712*
 F:	Documentation/fb/sm712fb.txt
 
 SIMPLE FIRMWARE INTERFACE (SFI)
-M:	Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
-L:	sfi-devel@simplefirmware.org
+M:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
 W:	http://simplefirmware.org/
-T:	git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-sfi-2.6.git
 S:	Supported
 F:	arch/x86/platform/sfi/
 F:	drivers/sfi/
-- 
2.17.1

Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: update simple firmware interface (SFI) section entry

[Len Brown]

Acked-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>

Indeed, Lukas, I believe that all of the systems that will ship with
SFI have shipped.
It is probably time to delete this code from the kernel.

-Len

On Sat, Jan 19, 2019 at 3:07 PM Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Len Brown has not been active in this part since around 2010. The recent
> activity suggests that Thomas Gleixner and Jiang Lui were maintaining
> this part of the kernel sources. Jiang Lui has not been active in the
> kernel sources since beginning 2016. So, the maintainer's role seems to
> be now with Thomas.
>
> The referenced git tree does not exist. Instead, I found an sfi branch
> in Len's kernel git repository, but that has not been updated since 2014;
> so that is not worth to be mentioned in MAINTAINERS now anymore either.
>
> This change was motivated after I found that I could not send any mails
> to the sfi-devel mailing list, and that the mailing list does not exist
> anymore.
>
> Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
> ---
>
> Len, please ack this patch.
>
> Thomas, if you are maintaining SFI, please pick this.
>
>  MAINTAINERS | 4 +---
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index 887b4b9fb6c4..e2d370910a07 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -13841,10 +13841,8 @@ F:     drivers/video/fbdev/sm712*
>  F:     Documentation/fb/sm712fb.txt
>
>  SIMPLE FIRMWARE INTERFACE (SFI)
> -M:     Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
> -L:     sfi-devel@simplefirmware.org
> +M:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
>  W:     http://simplefirmware.org/
> -T:     git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-sfi-2.6.git
>  S:     Supported
>  F:     arch/x86/platform/sfi/
>  F:     drivers/sfi/
> --
> 2.17.1
>


-- 
Len Brown, Intel Open Source Technology Center

Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: update simple firmware interface (SFI) section entry

[Lukas Bulwahn]

On Tue, 19 Feb 2019, Len Brown wrote:

> Acked-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
> 
> Indeed, Lukas, I believe that all of the systems that will ship with
> SFI have shipped.
> It is probably time to delete this code from the kernel.
>

Len, your answer suggests that we should actually set the status to 
Obsolete and probably plan to delete it in the kernel soonish.

If you can confirm that, I will provide a PATCH v2.

Lukas

RE: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: update simple firmware interface (SFI) section entry

[Brown, Len]

Yes, this can be scheduled to be deleted.