Following the recent Intel driver being orphaned due to layoffs at the company and other Intel Linux engineering changes due to the ongoing restructuring at the company, for the Linux 6.17 kernel there are some additional Intel driver maintainer changes spotted.
The char/misc/IIO pull request was merged this week from Greg Kroah-Hartman. Not too much exciting from that pull on the technical side besides some Android binder updates, IIO driver clean-ups, and other low-level work. But when digging through those patches I noticed a patch to the MAINTAINERS file and sure enough it was for Intel.
Xu Yilun is now taking over maintainership of the FPGA DFL drivers and of the FPGA Manager Framework itself within the Linux kernel from Wu Hao. FPGA DFL is for the FPGA Device Feature List Framework that is used for concealing low layer hardware details and providing a unified interface to user-space. Linux’s FPGA Manager provides functions for programming an FPGA with an image.
The patch changing the Intel maintainer of the FPGA Manager Framework and DFL code simply notes that Wu Hao’s “email no longer works” and thus presumably is no longer at Intel.
Another recent Intel driver maintainership change for Linux is around the DLB2 driver for Intel Dynamic Load Balancer. The patch has Tirthendu Sarkar taking over as the DLB2 maintainer from Pravin Pathak. Pathak appears to still be at Intel as one of the Intel Dynamic Load Balancer software architects but no longer maintaining the upstream Linux driver.
That’s the latest on Intel Linux maintainer changes I have spotted and the only Intel Linux-relevant changes in the past two weeks since the major announcement of Intel ending Clear Linux.
