From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933991AbcKWIxv (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Nov 2016 03:53:51 -0500 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:38064 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933363AbcKWIw0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Nov 2016 03:52:26 -0500 Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2016 09:52:34 +0100 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: Tomi Valkeinen Cc: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, Thomas Petazzoni , Noralf =?iso-8859-1?Q?Tr=F8nnes?= , Sudip Mukherjee , Teddy Wang , Arnaud Patard , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] staging: remove fbdev drivers Message-ID: <20161123085234.GB3122@kroah.com> References: <1479888193-23908-1-git-send-email-tomi.valkeinen@ti.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1479888193-23908-1-git-send-email-tomi.valkeinen@ti.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.7.1 (2016-10-04) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 10:03:10AM +0200, Tomi Valkeinen wrote: > Hi, > > Since the fbdev framework is in maintenance mode and all new display drivers > should be made with the DRM framework, remove the fbdev drivers from staging. > > Note: the patches are created with git format-patch -D, so they can't be > applied. Only for review. I only want to remove these drivers if we have the same functionality in mainline for their hardware. If not, that's a bit rude to those who actually use them today, don't you think? thanks, greg k-h