From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sudip Mukherjee Date: Wed, 02 Sep 2015 12:48:27 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] staging: sm7xxfb: move sm712fb out of staging Message-Id: <20150902124811.GA25301@sudip-pc> List-Id: References: <1437192539-14150-1-git-send-email-sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com> <55E5A7BC.8060003@ti.com> <20150901135514.GB15833@sudip-pc> <55E6E45B.5030500@ti.com> In-Reply-To: <55E6E45B.5030500@ti.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Tomi Valkeinen Cc: Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard , Jonathan Corbet , Greg Kroah-Hartman , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org On Wed, Sep 02, 2015 at 02:58:19PM +0300, Tomi Valkeinen wrote: > On 01/09/15 16:55, Sudip Mukherjee wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 01, 2015 at 04:27:24PM +0300, Tomi Valkeinen wrote: > >> On 18/07/15 07:08, Sudip Mukherjee wrote: > >>> Now since all cleanups are done and the code is ready to be merged lets > >>> move it out of staging into fbdev location. > > Some replies inline and remaining I will fix and send patches to you. > > Wouldn't the time be better spent on the DRM driver? > > This driver will be obsolete immediately when there's a DRM driver for > this device, and then it'll be yet another obsoleted fbdev driver we > need to maintain. Now I am getting confused. :( Since this has already been merged I guess we need to maintain it now. So then should I fix the things you pointed out or should i instead give more priority to the DRM driver and fix these things later? And, just to inform you, there are two more fbdev drivers in staging, staging/sm750fb and staging/fbtft. And the ultimate goal of any driver in staging is to move out staging into the main part of the kernel. And I expect sm750fb to be ready for moving before 4.6 merge window. If you don't want any more fbdev drivers to be added then maybe you can have a talk with Greg about this. He is already in the cc. regards sudip