From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754013AbbIBMs0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Sep 2015 08:48:26 -0400 Received: from mail-pa0-f46.google.com ([209.85.220.46]:33243 "EHLO mail-pa0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752747AbbIBMsY (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Sep 2015 08:48:24 -0400 Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2015 18:18:12 +0530 From: Sudip Mukherjee To: Tomi Valkeinen Cc: Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard , Jonathan Corbet , Greg Kroah-Hartman , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] staging: sm7xxfb: move sm712fb out of staging Message-ID: <20150902124811.GA25301@sudip-pc> References: <1437192539-14150-1-git-send-email-sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com> <55E5A7BC.8060003@ti.com> <20150901135514.GB15833@sudip-pc> <55E6E45B.5030500@ti.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <55E6E45B.5030500@ti.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 Wed, Sep 02, 2015 at 02:58:19PM +0300, Tomi Valkeinen wrote: > On 01/09/15 16:55, Sudip Mukherjee wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 01, 2015 at 04:27:24PM +0300, Tomi Valkeinen wrote: > >> On 18/07/15 07:08, Sudip Mukherjee wrote: > >>> Now since all cleanups are done and the code is ready to be merged lets > >>> move it out of staging into fbdev location. > > Some replies inline and remaining I will fix and send patches to you. > > Wouldn't the time be better spent on the DRM driver? > > This driver will be obsolete immediately when there's a DRM driver for > this device, and then it'll be yet another obsoleted fbdev driver we > need to maintain. Now I am getting confused. :( Since this has already been merged I guess we need to maintain it now. So then should I fix the things you pointed out or should i instead give more priority to the DRM driver and fix these things later? And, just to inform you, there are two more fbdev drivers in staging, staging/sm750fb and staging/fbtft. And the ultimate goal of any driver in staging is to move out staging into the main part of the kernel. And I expect sm750fb to be ready for moving before 4.6 merge window. If you don't want any more fbdev drivers to be added then maybe you can have a talk with Greg about this. He is already in the cc. regards sudip