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 <[email protected]> --- Thomas, please pick this _reworked_ patch now. thanks. v1: https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/1033696/ - got Acked-by: Len Brown <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> -L: [email protected] 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
