[PATCH v3-RESEND] MAINTAINERS: mark simple firmware interface (SFI) obsolete

From: Lukas Bulwahn
Date: Sat Dec 14 2019 - 03:04:32 EST


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 <lukas.bulwahn@xxxxxxxxx>
---

Thomas, please pick this _reworked_ patch now. thanks.

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

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, as Thomas requested.

v3-resend:
- applies cleanly on v5.5-rc1, current master (e31736d9fae8) and
next-20191213

MAINTAINERS | 5 +----
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index b540ecc4e2a3..62a30f170d94 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -15033,11 +15033,8 @@ F: drivers/video/fbdev/sm712*
F: Documentation/fb/sm712fb.rst

SIMPLE FIRMWARE INTERFACE (SFI)
-M: Len Brown <lenb@xxxxxxxxxx>
-L: sfi-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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