From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com (Maxime Ripard) Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2016 13:57:58 +0200 Subject: [GIT PULL] move ARM LCD display driver to auxdisplay In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20160425115758.GA4874@lukather> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org 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 -- Maxime Ripard, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 819 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: