From: Anatolij Gustschin <agust@denx.de>
To: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org,
lethal@linux-sh.org, yorksun@freescale.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fsl-diu-fb: remove the ioctl interface
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 00:38:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110622003853.1041385c@wker> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1308691655-3416-1-git-send-email-timur@freescale.com>
On Tue, 21 Jun 2011 16:27:35 -0500
Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com> wrote:
> The ioctl interface in the Freescale DIU framebuffer driver is just a
> collection of miscellaneous functions which were only used in a one-time
> demo application that was never distributed. Plus, the ioctls were spread
> across two types (both conflicting), and the demo app didn't even use all
> of them.
>
> Removing the ioctl interface also allows us to clean up the header file and
> remove other unusued stuff.
No! We are using ioctl interface of this driver in many video
rendering applications on overlay planes on huge number of boards.
So, please don't remove it.
Anatolij
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-21 22:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-21 21:27 [PATCH] fsl-diu-fb: remove the ioctl interface Timur Tabi
2011-06-21 22:38 ` Anatolij Gustschin [this message]
2011-06-21 23:13 ` Tabi Timur-B04825
2011-06-22 20:11 ` Anatolij Gustschin
2011-09-21 2:10 ` Tabi Timur-B04825
2011-09-21 8:29 ` Anatolij Gustschin
2011-06-22 10:39 ` Jenkins, Clive
2011-06-23 11:26 ` Anatolij Gustschin
2011-06-23 11:29 ` Tabi Timur-B04825
2011-06-23 11:39 ` Anatolij Gustschin
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