Re: [PATCH v1 1/2] firmware: sysfb: Unorphan sysfb files

[Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>]

On Fri, Jun 27, 2025 at 10:50:48AM +0200, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
> Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> writes:
> 
> > The commit d391c5827107 ("drivers/firmware: move x86 Generic
> > System Framebuffers support") moved some code to the common
> > folders and effectively orphaned it without any reason. Put
> > it back under DRM MISC record.
> 
> What do you mean that it was "orphaned without any reason" ? There were no
> regex matchs for the old file paths in MAINTAINERS either before that commit.

There were maintainers for that code before. The change in question dropped that.

[((bf44e8cecc03...))]$ scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f arch/x86/kernel/sysfb*
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> (maintainer:X86 ARCHITECTURE (32-BIT AND 64-BIT))
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> (maintainer:X86 ARCHITECTURE (32-BIT AND 64-BIT))
Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> (maintainer:X86 ARCHITECTURE (32-BIT AND 64-BIT))
x86@kernel.org (maintainer:X86 ARCHITECTURE (32-BIT AND 64-BIT))
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> (reviewer:X86 ARCHITECTURE (32-BIT AND 64-BIT))
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (open list:X86 ARCHITECTURE (32-BIT AND 64-BIT))

[((d391c5827107...))]$ scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f drivers/firmware/sysfb*
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (open list)

See the difference?

...

> > +F:	drivers/firmware/sysfb*.c

> I would prefer these to be in the "DRM DRIVER FOR FIRMWARE FRAMEBUFFERS"
> entry instead of "DRM DRIVERS" since the former is what has most of the
> code for the sysfb infrastructure.

Then do it, please, fix the above.

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko