From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>,
linux-m68k <linux-m68k@lists.linux-m68k.org>,
sparclinux <sparclinux@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Fbdev development list <linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org>,
Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] fbdev/sbuslib: remove FBIOSCURSOR/FBIOGCURSOR leftovers
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 2020 10:40:46 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201007104046.GB24327@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAK8P3a2w1Q4coFLnW4sDQEC_01uwWWUkuGyqj=r=x3jtB8uhNA@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Oct 07, 2020 at 11:28:58AM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> The only one I have actually given up on is the atomisp staging driver,
> which uses an awful hack, copying the x86 implementation of
> copy_in_user()/compat_alloc_user_space() into the driver.
That is gross. Just mark the driver as broken for now. Linus agreed
years ago that we don't need to work around staging drivers. But
it would still be nice to ping the mainainers, as they often have
better ideas how to solve the problem.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-07 10:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-07 7:44 fbdev sbuslib cleanups Christoph Hellwig
2020-10-07 7:44 ` [PATCH 1/3] fbdev/sbuslib: remove FBIOSCURSOR/FBIOGCURSOR leftovers Christoph Hellwig
2020-10-07 8:05 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2020-10-07 8:54 ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-10-07 8:59 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-10-07 9:28 ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-10-07 10:40 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2020-10-07 11:07 ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-10-07 15:41 ` Sam Ravnborg
2020-10-07 7:44 ` [PATCH 2/3] fbdev/sbuslib: refactor sbusfb_ioctl_helper Christoph Hellwig
2020-10-07 7:44 ` [PATCH 3/3] fbdev/sbuslib: avoid compat_alloc_user_space in fbiogetputcmap Christoph Hellwig
2020-10-07 9:14 ` Arnd Bergmann
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