From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 498B5C2BA4C for ; Wed, 26 Jan 2022 11:18:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S240581AbiAZLSj (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Jan 2022 06:18:39 -0500 Received: from us-smtp-delivery-124.mimecast.com ([170.10.129.124]:40629 "EHLO us-smtp-delivery-124.mimecast.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S233442AbiAZLSh (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Jan 2022 06:18:37 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=redhat.com; s=mimecast20190719; t=1643195917; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=srD1l04gPQ84q1XF/RWjCuwwGgitsqKSn4fv06ciBhg=; b=KRZkCB6lUGM3lT4GWR5ZL/vHnBoJ5E95MYTA49kBaglKL+IkSwDyMyKizunrVddbgVEPcy 3lhjoCg+LbUW+khQfRg02IbCEnlG8vLA54n4KWgt8WFrzxEy1ruMFnObOT7DTrM4kUXIFR xUjQCIArYCTW3F/A8k6jquzH2jI1uSI= Received: from mail-wr1-f71.google.com (mail-wr1-f71.google.com [209.85.221.71]) by relay.mimecast.com with ESMTP with STARTTLS (version=TLSv1.2, cipher=TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) id us-mta-21-wpn-_CXVOy6cEEuIoJOa1A-1; Wed, 26 Jan 2022 06:18:33 -0500 X-MC-Unique: wpn-_CXVOy6cEEuIoJOa1A-1 Received: by mail-wr1-f71.google.com with SMTP id c10-20020adfa30a000000b001d79c73b64bso4169801wrb.1 for ; Wed, 26 Jan 2022 03:18:33 -0800 (PST) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20210112; h=x-gm-message-state:message-id:date:mime-version:user-agent:subject :content-language:to:cc:references:from:in-reply-to :content-transfer-encoding; bh=srD1l04gPQ84q1XF/RWjCuwwGgitsqKSn4fv06ciBhg=; b=ohOd1xgfmt9ovILfihNIgcls2ApUFJccuMjlYijPzrBJvbdpAS38Jlm4wxE35+1Hy6 aJ3zFty84QcHLpnqZbncQbMz6nKnr3+aIBaUTDr3g4W0qRlndxGZ3MAZAFZCIFLydbx2 bTcs7nvpo9dglTCDKbuXf9S4bnOgnioEoJmsGHBHxic+kq4QpMqO0dGmBYYS6CdQ9GXY XEfdt1gMLuVSKqqcb7R+1EhUmyM05ES0KCAr33TMiSjNbnTWPab+6/YZPMXNq5Z5UdEY ZyvHFAvWBG7hvYpn8iIF+shSBj4XolzAOb1Ml2cDoylCCEsWppPbQGKmfEgOoB1PbsMN UE6g== X-Gm-Message-State: AOAM532MlKtExX/utU5fciLZciWdCRbzaUB1J4OSmAcTo79ghEnziTGd 0XHsK94gSOL1AgsnArBy/oM02sTlvSyUOViy8scgZDqhnR7vuewzwlw/VVFoL40ybPCpzmckxqt T5mXdPdav4EgNctQiiONH/o/W X-Received: by 2002:a05:6000:156d:: with SMTP id 13mr1586783wrz.66.1643195912596; Wed, 26 Jan 2022 03:18:32 -0800 (PST) X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABdhPJyvCzW4Jn73KJItw350M3F/f6JTN+7T8OA7kDxsaF2hqvwBivMpTbBXPxCTm3unY1Mql6OAYg== X-Received: by 2002:a05:6000:156d:: with SMTP id 13mr1586760wrz.66.1643195912374; Wed, 26 Jan 2022 03:18:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.1.102] ([92.176.231.205]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id i17sm19005103wru.107.2022.01.26.03.18.30 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Wed, 26 Jan 2022 03:18:32 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2022 12:18:30 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/91.4.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 0/4] fbtft: Unorphan the driver for maintenance Content-Language: en-US To: Helge Deller , Andy Shevchenko , Thomas Zimmermann Cc: Andy Shevchenko , linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org, Michael Hennerich , Greg Kroah-Hartman , linux-staging@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, Phillip Potter , Carlis , Andy Shevchenko , Lee Jones , Heiner Kallweit References: <20220125202118.63362-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> <991e988b-7225-881b-a59a-33c3eae044be@suse.de> <3877516e-3db3-f732-b44f-7fe12b175226@gmx.de> From: Javier Martinez Canillas In-Reply-To: <3877516e-3db3-f732-b44f-7fe12b175226@gmx.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 1/26/22 11:59, Helge Deller wrote: > On 1/26/22 11:02, Andy Shevchenko wrote: [snip] >> P.S. For the record, I will personally NAK any attempts to remove that >> driver from the kernel. And this is another point why it's better not >> to be under the staging. > > I agree. Same as for me to NAK the disabling of fbcon's acceleration > features or even attempting to remove fbdev altogether (unless all > relevant drivers are ported to DRM). > But that will never happen if we keep moving the goal post. At some point new fbdev drivers should not be added anymore, otherwise the number of existing drivers that need conversion will keep growing. Best regards, -- Javier Martinez Canillas Linux Engineering Red Hat