From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-14.6 required=3.0 tests=DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID, DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN,FREEMAIL_FROM, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,INCLUDES_PATCH,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, MENTIONS_GIT_HOSTING,SIGNED_OFF_BY,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED, USER_AGENT_GIT autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E790BC3A59F for ; Mon, 26 Aug 2019 18:20:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C029420850 for ; Mon, 26 Aug 2019 18:20:20 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=gmail.com header.i=@gmail.com header.b="dre9DV4G" Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S2387791AbfHZSUU (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Aug 2019 14:20:20 -0400 Received: from mail-ed1-f66.google.com ([209.85.208.66]:45340 "EHLO mail-ed1-f66.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S2387777AbfHZSUT (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Aug 2019 14:20:19 -0400 Received: by mail-ed1-f66.google.com with SMTP id x19so27715315eda.12 for ; Mon, 26 Aug 2019 11:20:18 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id; bh=N4weBUZObjkT0iYXlNG3dax69Dk9pqX9JPbqFubJfc4=; b=dre9DV4GAPVr5XXv6RbsvbKURSMw5Dl014a9SaEYkSwkwrAkujcGZ3HlkhsMt/apA2 oPKRQKcui5y2OtdABmBoJYryUAIhRd+qS+PNFMDV9RXVNheTVyi+mPKpV2UJl1fi1P3v 8KRvDfhgsukxbKzGMlXmpX5+THBsNBcftlPM/XV2HuCuXoZt0PQTqOBzh5j5VAmttqTi s40173KcBShJXbWUK7Ph+tYWFWUF+YcCMGcYAepvpW1b0nKCEuFu+hASBmCghWrFi/T/ ILLDmW/Thg9Gngo05MkC5blUMuaydGnarDc4+73lA7SXD493VcFycBbLoygPC4eXQkKg nZKg== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id; bh=N4weBUZObjkT0iYXlNG3dax69Dk9pqX9JPbqFubJfc4=; b=PtARLQ8hEvT5vSAtqVSca5TBQs1pHzPGVWej2VO13FSIIjHdJfq1rcrELSxxpYObr5 IdW3SbTRqNxcRfSV+jr6CxF32mdvLit8aw7cO5sGgQ9SqQLVm/9NNR5bf+v41MGzWFSe O8oFCKIdcJ8G5p99qDbt3Jvk+8bS5NP5MadQWURuNE0tvHMqPZye7dca8DjiRvXaQyVF va9kE5oA2ZvWEt+dJBlPQdkZUz8Zv1e4hS5eqS0dwgOhSXwbWHgdGHR38kDvx5bVODDw vYLydpbQnFpg8lwewydRpXNTh38MToEjue9kGMe62v5eFM3ldMWzB0jK2yK19I+2p7EJ XAKQ== X-Gm-Message-State: APjAAAV7iYbkj6MM1aWyBuysQj7H/KUuvM3m5UvN+q0piVCdjY8o7euz I9nRruOEW990xADLS/31XPk= X-Google-Smtp-Source: APXvYqzyPrKcQxofAI6MKAvYwXounjs7XjJoy3FRLmbSpHMx96PhksUx4fz045jbT5+/hueD/uyP0A== X-Received: by 2002:aa7:d799:: with SMTP id s25mr20374970edq.172.1566843617683; Mon, 26 Aug 2019 11:20:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from felia.fritz.box ([2001:16b8:2d34:8300:85f2:24a1:2141:af4f]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id c8sm2744170ejk.22.2019.08.26.11.20.16 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Mon, 26 Aug 2019 11:20:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Lukas Bulwahn To: Thomas Gleixner , Len Brown Cc: x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Lukas Bulwahn Subject: [PATCH v3] MAINTAINERS: mark simple firmware interface (SFI) obsolete Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2019 20:19:56 +0200 Message-Id: <20190826181956.6918-1-lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.17.1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Len Brown has not been active in this part since around 2010 and confirmed that he is not maintaining this part of the kernel sources anymore and the git log suggests that nobody is actively maintaining it. 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 --- Thomas, please pick this _reworked_ patch now. thanks. v1: https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/1033696/ - got Acked-by: Len Brown v2: - also change status to Obsolete v2-resend: - applies cleanly to v5.3-rc5 and next-20190823 v3: - simply remove Len Brown and do not try to find a possible replacement MAINTAINERS | 5 +---- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS index 43604d6ab96c..f84173abdb71 100644 --- a/MAINTAINERS +++ b/MAINTAINERS @@ -14641,11 +14641,8 @@ F: drivers/video/fbdev/sm712* F: Documentation/fb/sm712fb.rst SIMPLE FIRMWARE INTERFACE (SFI) -M: Len Brown -L: sfi-devel@simplefirmware.org 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