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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@poczta.fm>
Cc: jani@ubuntu.com, linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
	Knut_Petersen@t-online.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] remove cyblafb driver
Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 13:34:32 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090309133432.ac6173cd.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090307234902.55295e2c.krzysztof.h1@poczta.fm>

On Sat, 7 Mar 2009 23:49:02 +0100
Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@poczta.fm> wrote:

> A tridentfb driver has all functionality
> of the cyblafb driver without bugs of
> the latter.

So what are the implications of this for users?  They'll do an
`oldconfig', will discover that their driver isn't there any more and
will then need to dig around through commit messges to find out what
happened to it?

I guess we can live with that, and I can't immediately think of a way
of improving their lives, so ho hum..



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  reply	other threads:[~2009-03-09 20:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-07 22:49 [PATCH] remove cyblafb driver Krzysztof Helt
2009-03-09 20:34 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2009-03-09 21:58   ` Krzysztof Helt
2009-03-09 21:58   ` Krzysztof Helt

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