From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Antonino A. Daplas" Subject: Re: [PATCH] fb: epson1355fb: Kill off dead sh support. Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2007 18:09:26 +0800 Message-ID: <1181210966.4502.6.camel@daplas> References: <20070607095418.GA23002@linux-sh.org> Reply-To: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from sc8-sf-mx2-b.sourceforge.net ([10.3.1.92] helo=mail.sourceforge.net) by sc8-sf-list1-new.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HwEwM-0007A0-4c for linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Thu, 07 Jun 2007 03:10:02 -0700 Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com ([209.85.146.176]) by mail.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.44) id 1HwEwL-0002O3-DC for linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Thu, 07 Jun 2007 03:10:02 -0700 Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id k22so549936waf for ; Thu, 07 Jun 2007 03:10:00 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20070607095418.GA23002@linux-sh.org> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: linux-fbdev-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: linux-fbdev-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net To: Paul Mundt Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net 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 Acked-by: Antonino Daplas Tony ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/