From: James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org>
To: Florian Tobias Schandinat <FlorianSchandinat@gmx.de>
Cc: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] fbdev: remove display subsystem
Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2011 15:40:23 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1109071637220.29700@casper.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1315013768-3235-1-git-send-email-FlorianSchandinat@gmx.de>
> This four year old subsystem does not have a single in-tree user
> not even in staging and as far as I know also none out-of-tree.
> I think that justifies removing it which cleans the config up.
The idea was to provide a frame work for text lcd panels, like for example
the CrystalFontz. Yes no one was interested so I guess having people write
there own console driver will do.
> Signed-off-by: Florian Tobias Schandinat <FlorianSchandinat@gmx.de>
> Cc: James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Ack-By: James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org>
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2011-09-03 1:36 [RFC] fbdev: remove display subsystem Florian Tobias Schandinat
2011-09-07 15:40 ` James Simmons [this message]
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