From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com>
Cc: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org,
"Thomas Petazzoni" <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>,
"Noralf Trønnes" <noralf@tronnes.org>,
"Sudip Mukherjee" <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>,
"Teddy Wang" <teddy.wang@siliconmotion.com>,
"Arnaud Patard" <arnaud.patard@rtp-net.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] staging: remove fbdev drivers
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2016 10:49:44 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161123094944.GA17112@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <230111fb-498e-11ef-b452-157a36d7f021@ti.com>
On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 11:12:32AM +0200, Tomi Valkeinen wrote:
> On 23/11/16 10:52, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > 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?
>
> What does it mean for a driver to be in staging? I thought it's
> basically the same as the driver being out-of-tree, with the difference
> that the code is in a central git repository for easier co-operation.
Yes, but it also allows people to use their hardware, for drivers that
are not "quite ready".
> If that's what staging means, then I would reject the staging fbdev
> drivers the same way as I'd reject new fbdev drivers sent as patches to
> the list.
Rejecting valid drivers for hardware that people have today is not a
nice thing. If you want to just move them into staging so that people
can get their hardware working while people port to the new apis, I will
be glad to take them.
> Or do you mean that we should keep the drivers in staging until there's
> a matching DRM driver, but drop any plans to move the drivers from
> staging to drivers/video/? If so, I'm fine with that. This is an RFC,
> mostly to raise some discussion and push people to actually write those
> DRM drivers =).
I do not want to move these to drivers/video/ and they should just stay
where they are until a matching DRM driver is present in the tree.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-11-23 10:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-11-23 8:03 [RFC PATCH 0/3] staging: remove fbdev drivers Tomi Valkeinen
2016-11-23 8:03 ` [RFC PATCH 1/3] staging: remove xgifb Tomi Valkeinen
2016-11-23 8:03 ` [RFC PATCH 2/3] staging: remove sm750fb Tomi Valkeinen
2016-11-23 8:03 ` [RFC PATCH 3/3] staging: remove fbtft Tomi Valkeinen
2016-11-23 17:26 ` Noralf Trønnes
2016-11-24 8:36 ` Tomi Valkeinen
2016-11-23 20:12 ` Drew Fustini
2016-11-23 8:19 ` [RFC PATCH 0/3] staging: remove fbdev drivers Daniel Vetter
2016-11-23 8:21 ` Tomi Valkeinen
2016-11-23 8:25 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2016-11-23 8:45 ` Daniel Vetter
2016-11-23 8:52 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2016-11-23 9:12 ` Tomi Valkeinen
2016-11-23 9:49 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2016-11-23 10:05 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2016-12-22 20:36 ` Andy Shevchenko
2016-12-08 22:00 ` Sudip Mukherjee
2016-12-08 1:01 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2016-12-08 8:01 ` Tomi Valkeinen
2016-12-08 21:23 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2016-12-08 21:43 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2016-12-09 8:13 ` Daniel Vetter
2016-12-13 7:36 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2016-12-08 10:10 ` Daniel Vetter
2016-12-08 12:15 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2016-12-08 14:02 ` Daniel Vetter
2016-12-08 14:22 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2016-12-08 14:37 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2016-12-08 14:44 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2016-12-08 15:21 ` Daniel Vetter
2016-12-08 21:34 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2016-12-08 21:57 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2016-12-09 8:34 ` Daniel Vetter
2016-12-09 8:41 ` Daniel Vetter
2016-12-09 11:48 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2016-12-09 13:35 ` Daniel Vetter
2016-12-09 20:27 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2016-12-13 7:18 ` Michel Dänzer
2016-12-09 11:44 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2016-12-09 12:33 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2016-12-09 13:19 ` Lucas Stach
2016-12-09 13:33 ` Daniel Vetter
2016-12-09 13:57 ` David Herrmann
2016-12-09 14:04 ` Daniel Vetter
2016-12-09 20:29 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2016-12-09 8:30 ` Daniel Vetter
2016-12-08 14:59 ` Jani Nikula
2016-12-08 14:22 ` Daniel Vetter
2016-12-08 21:28 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2016-12-09 0:08 ` Dave Airlie
2016-12-09 8:04 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2016-12-09 11:40 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2016-12-13 7:33 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2016-12-13 15:17 ` Laurent Pinchart
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