From: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
To: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: "Tomi Valkeinen" <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com>,
"Greg Kroah-Hartman" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org,
"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" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] staging: remove fbdev drivers
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2016 22:36:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHp75VdUzTojreu=fBQSaEySVjVWAAPa4oB9adPf3bZDhmtO0g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161123110529.289a1c7f@free-electrons.com>
On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 12:05 PM, Thomas Petazzoni
<thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Nov 2016 11:12:32 +0200, Tomi Valkeinen wrote:
>> 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 =).
>
> The very reason why I submitted those drivers for staging is because
> lots and lots of people were using out of tree kernel modules for these
> drivers, which was really a pain.
>
> If you now remove those drivers from staging, then those folks will be
> back in the situation they originally were, using annoying out of tree
> modules.
>
> I'm all for removing fbtft drivers progressively as a matching
> DRM-based driver is available for the same hardware. However, if there
> is no DRM-based support for a given piece of hardware supported by
> fbtft, I'd prefer if we kept the fbtft driver for this hardware.
Too many people are playing with big things, I vote +1 to *leave*
fbtft for people who prefer small on big.
--
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-12-22 20:36 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
2016-11-23 10:05 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2016-12-22 20:36 ` Andy Shevchenko [this message]
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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