Re: [PATCH] fb: epson1355fb: Kill off dead sh support.

["Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@gmail.com>]

On Thu, 2007-06-07 at 18:54 +0900, Paul Mundt wrote:
> The SH board that was the only user for this code was removed entirely
> from the kernel quite some time ago, so there's no reason to leave
> the stubs in place. Additionally this driver was completely broken
> anyways, so there's not really a lot of point in fixing it up either.
> 
> I can't imagine that this driver gets any testing on ARM either, given
> that FB_BLANK_UNBLANKING doesn't exist, and kills the build regardless
> of which platform is compiling. This fixes that, too.
> 
> It wouldn't be a lot of work to finish the platform device conversion
> and go with a generic 8-bit read/write_reg and kill off the architecture
> dependence completely, should someone have any use for this driver.
> 

I wonder whether we have users for this driver at all. This hardware is
a pain because it's limited to 16-bit access only.

> Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Acked-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com>

Tony


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