From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752145AbaKVQUf (ORCPT ); Sat, 22 Nov 2014 11:20:35 -0500 Received: from mail-pd0-f171.google.com ([209.85.192.171]:51358 "EHLO mail-pd0-f171.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751812AbaKVQUe (ORCPT ); Sat, 22 Nov 2014 11:20:34 -0500 Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2014 21:50:20 +0530 From: Sudip Mukherjee To: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, LKML , Steven Rostedt , Markos Chandras , Ben Hutchings , Teddy Wang Subject: Re: [PATCH] Revert "staging: sm7xxfb: remove driver" Message-ID: <20141122162020.GA10957@sudip-PC> References: <20141120170925.5a435436@gandalf.local.home> <20141120232329.GA27669@kroah.com> <20141122070202.GB4490@sudip-PC> <20141122140040.GA28422@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20141122140040.GA28422@kroah.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 06:00:40AM -0800, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 12:32:02PM +0530, Sudip Mukherjee wrote: > > 2) most important - I do not have the hardware. So from the TODO list > > dual head and 2D acceleration support will be tough without actually > > checking on the hardware. > > For a driver like this, if you don't have the hardware, I wouldn't > recommend taking on the task of trying to fix it up and become the > maintainer, sorry. ofcourse. that is the reason i mentioned in my mail that i do not have the hardware. I am trying to get a SM712 based display card.if i manage to get one i will mail you again. thanks sudip > > greg k-h