[RESEND][PATCH v2-resend] MAINTAINERS: mark simple firmware interface (SFI) obsolete

[RESEND][PATCH v2-resend] MAINTAINERS: mark simple firmware interface (SFI) obsolete

[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.

Len Brown expects no further systems to be shipped with SFI, so we can
mark it obsolete and schedule it for deletion.

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>
---
Thomas, please pick this patch.

v1: https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/1033696/
  - got Acked-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>

v2:
  - also change status to Obsolete

v2-resend:
  - applies cleanly to v5.3-rc5 and next-20190823

 MAINTAINERS | 6 ++----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 43604d6ab96c..87ad837c62fb 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -14641,11 +14641,9 @@ F:	drivers/video/fbdev/sm712*
 F:	Documentation/fb/sm712fb.rst
 
 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
+S:	Obsolete
 F:	arch/x86/platform/sfi/
 F:	drivers/sfi/
 F:	include/linux/sfi*.h
-- 
2.17.1

Re: [RESEND][PATCH v2-resend] MAINTAINERS: mark simple firmware interface (SFI) obsolete

[Thomas Gleixner]

Lukas,

On Sun, 25 Aug 2019, Lukas Bulwahn 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.

Nice try. All I did there was converting the existing code to new
interfaces and to use SPDX identifiers. You touched it last, you own it, is
not really working.

TBH. I have no clue what that is except that it's bitrotting.

>  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
> +S:	Obsolete
>  F:	arch/x86/platform/sfi/
>  F:	drivers/sfi/
>  F:	include/linux/sfi*.h

So why not removing this whole entry. arch/x86/platform/sfi is already
covered by x86 and the driver cruft falls back to the people who are used
to deal with dead drivers anyway.

Thanks,

	tglx

Re: [RESEND][PATCH v2-resend] MAINTAINERS: mark simple firmware interface (SFI) obsolete

[Lukas Bulwahn]

On Mon, Aug 26, 2019 at 5:12 PM Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote:
>
> Lukas,
>
> On Sun, 25 Aug 2019, Lukas Bulwahn 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.
>
> Nice try. All I did there was converting the existing code to new
> interfaces and to use SPDX identifiers. You touched it last, you own it, is
> not really working.
>
> TBH. I have no clue what that is except that it's bitrotting.
>
> >  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
> > +S:   Obsolete
> >  F:   arch/x86/platform/sfi/
> >  F:   drivers/sfi/
> >  F:   include/linux/sfi*.h
>
> So why not removing this whole entry. arch/x86/platform/sfi is already
> covered by x86 and the driver cruft falls back to the people who are used
> to deal with dead drivers anyway.
>

Patch v3 will follow, where I will simply drop the maintainer. That
makes clear that nobody is maintaining this obsolete driver and with
the next clean-up action, somebody looking for obsolete drivers will
simply move this code into staging or simply delete it for good.

Let us indicate that that is the plan by changing it to obsolete and
remove all maintainers.

Lukas