From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2879DC2BA4C for ; Wed, 26 Jan 2022 11:18:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S233480AbiAZLSg (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Jan 2022 06:18:36 -0500 Received: from us-smtp-delivery-124.mimecast.com ([170.10.133.124]:31018 "EHLO us-smtp-delivery-124.mimecast.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S233442AbiAZLSf (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Jan 2022 06:18:35 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=redhat.com; s=mimecast20190719; t=1643195915; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=srD1l04gPQ84q1XF/RWjCuwwGgitsqKSn4fv06ciBhg=; b=BOq1JhOQ6S5CBzLMafGtyDPZsi8Ip66bN/ZQDczOdtou3QFz8vfAU11O/uvZAnsl88tyn9 Ag42FArFJKYuGyZuX70P6b9Ab/o+uOchbFdPmeNwH6msPuJ+Kn4/Jd5ehWfnxDEPKMlIPe aunQR60Au1OiUBAx5idNc5eDjDW2gCU= Received: from mail-wr1-f71.google.com (mail-wr1-f71.google.com [209.85.221.71]) by relay.mimecast.com with ESMTP with STARTTLS (version=TLSv1.2, cipher=TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) id us-mta-572-0_5RF-ZnNJK5mifVa12KVA-1; Wed, 26 Jan 2022 06:18:33 -0500 X-MC-Unique: 0_5RF-ZnNJK5mifVa12KVA-1 Received: by mail-wr1-f71.google.com with SMTP id v28-20020adfa1dc000000b001dd1cb24081so1731920wrv.10 for ; Wed, 26 Jan 2022 03:18:33 -0800 (PST) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20210112; h=x-gm-message-state:message-id:date:mime-version:user-agent:subject :content-language:to:cc:references:from:in-reply-to :content-transfer-encoding; bh=srD1l04gPQ84q1XF/RWjCuwwGgitsqKSn4fv06ciBhg=; b=eAizsHakhe3hUclyNB+OqMGQGUIIo0NJBIerT6FoCOR9bJyFiJFeJ01ezTBEVI3w4c PGj2dhz2zX8ZQ4G5tkda10e6woQtq2ptyQZVeVowZ//6eHM997GJM4EjToruAi1DTYcx wES7icU+9FpRrypiHK/5yZP4xQiZaoOyvVHNJB4JQ4VihcUC3vdyqWowdvIoN6O14XdQ PcGKql8plBxi1LPT2/RLPwsR3Wb7VwwPouHMsSF0EnbO6SPJELIzDjeYjrV3iHxy/3TO c8Lr+rykcfREIll1Wn+1dLZGLG4G9dRYlgMml75yKHf8lm1MaWtQ9s/AstDiN7i/HIYM tTWA== X-Gm-Message-State: AOAM533x/ctYDU2Pg8hACDGgcu08GC+vLOBAFDDmfp0DIdo2O6dNea8S lgkQiQM9M5CMRfH9wGPYBhSOZD+SQxhePzL1WttprfEGjwb0JdcxBE4XWZICjC8bA5CgohMqFPx xO+DQ8pfXgfjURJJS6Ckp2UE= X-Received: by 2002:a05:6000:156d:: with SMTP id 13mr1586795wrz.66.1643195912647; Wed, 26 Jan 2022 03:18:32 -0800 (PST) X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABdhPJyvCzW4Jn73KJItw350M3F/f6JTN+7T8OA7kDxsaF2hqvwBivMpTbBXPxCTm3unY1Mql6OAYg== X-Received: by 2002:a05:6000:156d:: with SMTP id 13mr1586760wrz.66.1643195912374; Wed, 26 Jan 2022 03:18:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.1.102] ([92.176.231.205]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id i17sm19005103wru.107.2022.01.26.03.18.30 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Wed, 26 Jan 2022 03:18:32 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2022 12:18:30 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/91.4.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 0/4] fbtft: Unorphan the driver for maintenance Content-Language: en-US To: Helge Deller , Andy Shevchenko , Thomas Zimmermann Cc: Andy Shevchenko , linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org, Michael Hennerich , Greg Kroah-Hartman , linux-staging@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, Phillip Potter , Carlis , Andy Shevchenko , Lee Jones , Heiner Kallweit References: <20220125202118.63362-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> <991e988b-7225-881b-a59a-33c3eae044be@suse.de> <3877516e-3db3-f732-b44f-7fe12b175226@gmx.de> From: Javier Martinez Canillas In-Reply-To: <3877516e-3db3-f732-b44f-7fe12b175226@gmx.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org On 1/26/22 11:59, Helge Deller wrote: > On 1/26/22 11:02, Andy Shevchenko wrote: [snip] >> P.S. For the record, I will personally NAK any attempts to remove that >> driver from the kernel. And this is another point why it's better not >> to be under the staging. > > I agree. Same as for me to NAK the disabling of fbcon's acceleration > features or even attempting to remove fbdev altogether (unless all > relevant drivers are ported to DRM). > But that will never happen if we keep moving the goal post. At some point new fbdev drivers should not be added anymore, otherwise the number of existing drivers that need conversion will keep growing. Best regards, -- Javier Martinez Canillas Linux Engineering Red Hat