On 22 April 2016 at 09:39, Daniel Vetter daniel@ffwll.ch wrote:
On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 12:04:02AM +0100, Emil Velikov wrote:
Pretty much all of these hasn't seen any action singe 2008 at the very least. Barring the occasional buildfix and DRM-wide refactoring of course.
Note: some distributions have stopped shipping their userspace counterparts for a while. Although some still do.
Signed-off-by: Emil Velikov emil.l.velikov@gmail.com
I'm inclined to list these as Obsolete, yet that implies that there's something better in the works, yet there isn't.
I believe many people will be happy to see these drivers go, although I doubt interested parties are about to port them to KMS/DRI2 unless we make some noise. Like, say, propose their removal ? ;-)
If we do this, does get_maintainers.pl still list dri-devel@fd.o and Dave's mail address? Just want to make sure that patches for those won't suddenly disappear out of sight (not that there are many really).
What a happy little accident it will be if it they do. One could say "they haven't worked in years" and give them the stick ;-)
But seriously - yes it still lists Dave/dri-devel. Here is the output
$ scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f drivers/gpu/drm/sis/
David Airlie airlied@linux.ie (maintainer:DRM DRIVERS) Dave Airlie airlied@redhat.com (commit_signer:1/1=100%) Mikko Rapeli mikko.rapeli@iki.fi (commit_signer:1/1=100%,authored:1/1=100%) dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org (open list:DRM DRIVERS) linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (open list)
And for reference
$ git grep -2 -h "drm/sis" MAINTAINERS
DRM DRIVER FOR SIS VIDEO CARDS S: Orphan / Obsolete F: drivers/gpu/drm/sis/ F: include/uapi/drm/sis_drm.h
Regards, Emil