From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: "Noralf Trønnes" <noralf@tronnes.org>
Cc: OSUOSL Drivers <devel@driverdev.osuosl.org>,
Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>,
DRI Development <dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org>
Subject: Re: fbtft: 5 years in staging
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2020 10:03:56 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200203100356.GB3056136@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a6cef26c-0f4b-47f0-d249-71f53891526b@tronnes.org>
On Sun, Feb 02, 2020 at 04:41:54PM +0100, Noralf Trønnes wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Since I'm the original author of fbtft I thought I'd highlight a couple
> of issues that's probably not well known.
>
> Right after fbtft was added, fbdev was closed for new drivers[1] and
> the fbdev maintainer wanted to remove fbtft as a consequence of that
> decision, but Greg KH said he'd keep fbtft drivers in staging
> "until a matching DRM driver is present in the tree"[2].
<snip>
Thanks for the great summary, much appreciated.
greg k-h
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-02-02 15:41 fbtft: 5 years in staging Noralf Trønnes
2020-02-02 15:48 ` Noralf Trønnes
2020-02-02 18:48 ` Sam Ravnborg
2020-02-03 10:03 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
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