From: maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com (Maxime Ripard)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [GIT PULL] move ARM LCD display driver to auxdisplay
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2016 13:57:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160425115758.GA4874@lukather> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACRpkdbyO0axd5ergYZcXO302f2fFAPKrSNevkvreP1kRjm-vw@mail.gmail.com>
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.
Maxime
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Maxime Ripard, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
http://free-electrons.com
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Thread overview: 16+ 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
2016-04-25 11:57 ` Maxime Ripard [this message]
2016-04-25 22:18 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-04-26 10:41 ` Linus Walleij
2016-04-28 9:26 ` Maxime Ripard
2016-04-29 7:49 ` Linus Walleij
2016-04-29 14:53 ` Tomi Valkeinen
2016-05-09 7:06 ` Robin van der Gracht
2016-05-09 13:19 ` Linus Walleij
2016-05-09 14:17 ` Robin van der Gracht
2016-05-09 14:27 ` Linus Walleij
2016-05-10 7:10 ` Greg KH
2016-05-11 7:46 ` Robin van der Gracht
2016-05-11 8:34 ` Greg KH
2016-05-12 10:25 ` Robin van der Gracht
2016-05-18 14:35 ` Linus Walleij
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