Re: [RFC PATCH] MAINTAINERS: add further core files to mm core section

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Wed Jul 23 2025 - 01:36:49 EST


On Tue, Jul 22, 2025 at 04:22:59PM +0200, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> It seems it only gained its only user in b739f125e4eb ("i915: use
> io_mapping_map_user") but reverted a month later by 0e4fe0c9f2f9 ("Revert
> "i915: use io_mapping_map_user"") all that in 2021.
>
> Ideally i915 would be converted again with the revert reasons investigated
> properly this time. Otherwise we should remove the thing.

Yeah, someone needs to sort the i915 mess, and it's sad they just
reverted things instead of trying to understand it.

But until that happens the code is dead and should be removed.