Re: [PATCH 2/2] Revert "fbcon: Disable accelerated scrolling"

From: Daniel Vetter
Date: Wed Jan 19 2022 - 11:31:56 EST


On Wed, Jan 19, 2022 at 06:13:39PM +0200, Jani Nikula wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Jan 2022, Helge Deller <deller@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > On 1/19/22 16:42, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> >> If otoh you get the maintainership first to be able to cram in reverts
> >> without discussions, then it's very backwards.
> > I'm working on the Linux kernel since at least 23 years and am a maintainer of parts of it.
> > I know that and would never push something which is controversal without discussions.
>
> I think the entire MAINTAINERS change was controversial and rushed to
> Linus without discussion over a weekend.

Yeah just looking at the size of the thread is pretty clear indiciation
that this went wrong real good.

And I said that you need to clean this up in my very first reply. None of
this should have been a surprise, but somehow it all happened.
-Daniel
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Daniel Vetter
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