From: arnd@arndb.de (Arnd Bergmann)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [GIT PULL] move ARM LCD display driver to auxdisplay
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2016 00:18:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8373519.0RWpCDubQ0@wuerfel> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160425115758.GA4874@lukather>
On Monday 25 April 2016 13:57:58 Maxime Ripard wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 11:43:58AM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:
> > Hi ARM SoC guys,
> >
> > these two patches move the ARM character LCD driver from
> > misc drivers to the auxdisplay subsystem where it belongs and
> > updates the defconfig for the RealView accordingly.
> >
> > Please pull it into some cleanup branch in the ARM SoC
> > tree.
> >
> > I tried to get some ACK from the auxdisplay maintainer but no
> > reaction.
>
> Auxdisplay is not a new framework, but rather a very old one.
>
> It got introduced in 2.6.21, and only received a couple of drivers
> since.
>
> It seems to be quite redundant with fbdev deferred_io, which itself is
> almost deprecated these days.
I'm holding off on this pull request for now then.
I'd certainly like to see the driver get moved out of drivers/misc,
let me know once there has been an agreement of where it should go.
Arnd
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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>,
"arm@kernel.org" <arm@kernel.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org"
<linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
Miguel Ojeda Sandonis <maxextreme@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] move ARM LCD display driver to auxdisplay
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2016 00:18:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8373519.0RWpCDubQ0@wuerfel> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160425115758.GA4874@lukather>
On Monday 25 April 2016 13:57:58 Maxime Ripard wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 11:43:58AM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:
> > Hi ARM SoC guys,
> >
> > these two patches move the ARM character LCD driver from
> > misc drivers to the auxdisplay subsystem where it belongs and
> > updates the defconfig for the RealView accordingly.
> >
> > Please pull it into some cleanup branch in the ARM SoC
> > tree.
> >
> > I tried to get some ACK from the auxdisplay maintainer but no
> > reaction.
>
> Auxdisplay is not a new framework, but rather a very old one.
>
> It got introduced in 2.6.21, and only received a couple of drivers
> since.
>
> It seems to be quite redundant with fbdev deferred_io, which itself is
> almost deprecated these days.
I'm holding off on this pull request for now then.
I'd certainly like to see the driver get moved out of drivers/misc,
let me know once there has been an agreement of where it should go.
Arnd
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-04-25 22:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-04-23 9:43 [GIT PULL] move ARM LCD display driver to auxdisplay Linus Walleij
2016-04-23 9:43 ` Linus Walleij
2016-04-25 11:57 ` Maxime Ripard
2016-04-25 11:57 ` Maxime Ripard
2016-04-25 22:18 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2016-04-25 22:18 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-04-26 10:41 ` Linus Walleij
2016-04-26 10:41 ` Linus Walleij
2016-04-28 9:26 ` Maxime Ripard
2016-04-28 9:26 ` Maxime Ripard
2016-04-29 7:49 ` Linus Walleij
2016-04-29 7:49 ` Linus Walleij
2016-04-29 14:53 ` Tomi Valkeinen
2016-04-29 14:53 ` Tomi Valkeinen
2016-05-09 7:06 ` Robin van der Gracht
2016-05-09 7:06 ` Robin van der Gracht
2016-05-09 13:19 ` Linus Walleij
2016-05-09 13:19 ` Linus Walleij
2016-05-09 14:17 ` Robin van der Gracht
2016-05-09 14:17 ` Robin van der Gracht
2016-05-09 14:27 ` Linus Walleij
2016-05-09 14:27 ` Linus Walleij
2016-05-10 7:10 ` Greg KH
2016-05-10 7:10 ` Greg KH
2016-05-11 7:46 ` Robin van der Gracht
2016-05-11 7:46 ` Robin van der Gracht
2016-05-11 8:34 ` Greg KH
2016-05-11 8:34 ` Greg KH
2016-05-12 10:25 ` Robin van der Gracht
2016-05-12 10:25 ` Robin van der Gracht
2016-05-18 14:35 ` Linus Walleij
2016-05-18 14:35 ` Linus Walleij
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