From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754694AbcDYL6O (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Apr 2016 07:58:14 -0400 Received: from down.free-electrons.com ([37.187.137.238]:56099 "EHLO mail.free-electrons.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754615AbcDYL6K (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Apr 2016 07:58:10 -0400 Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2016 13:57:58 +0200 From: Maxime Ripard To: Linus Walleij Cc: "arm@kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" , Miguel Ojeda Sandonis Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] move ARM LCD display driver to auxdisplay Message-ID: <20160425115758.GA4874@lukather> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="IJpNTDwzlM2Ie8A6" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --IJpNTDwzlM2Ie8A6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi, On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 11:43:58AM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote: > Hi ARM SoC guys, >=20 > these two patches move the ARM character LCD driver from > misc drivers to the auxdisplay subsystem where it belongs and > updates the defconfig for the RealView accordingly. >=20 > Please pull it into some cleanup branch in the ARM SoC > tree. >=20 > I tried to get some ACK from the auxdisplay maintainer but no > reaction. Auxdisplay is not a new framework, but rather a very old one. It got introduced in 2.6.21, and only received a couple of drivers since. It seems to be quite redundant with fbdev deferred_io, which itself is almost deprecated these days. Maxime --=20 Maxime Ripard, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com --IJpNTDwzlM2Ie8A6 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJXHgZGAAoJEBx+YmzsjxAgGVsP/0oeLv6sdw4ZRqt7x30oo8mC E3gxyWedNnlMb+T7Jy5nkoVMH7vRoxjETZcK0WCnnrWRMsMb3cWI8EdNpb+/ED06 pCx6sFUDz+w5gOxpH/l9B+hz2J6ekJkP8MEYdRrGWiaDHUKRwn7N3Ws8ZIpY6AxP H54Xne1vFFbK6klJEyJdx23QjpClkZP/7/G3bad6GJowG7USGloH9k+t6XzKfjR4 jJNXkbZ7ocxZkPeL7O5JUe3GZ51/zPTiZgdbeeBMLntKUKWYlUU/gfKMf+NJMTbW C4ZibvXP5nxYg7O1DklM/A3U6coMHkW5Zx4Uk9kEXdABMmNoRtTXxv79ZbkjB8sG 4Gp5uRHV2frCZYZmnUP1A5UF3BwX+iPi+zabVmrBaNo5VLLoyqqm9axFaFV7dC0X wf20cdMucWaakmqegVYXFBv4v4elAqufY8hYSkyb/YtUzO3u0h7bTX3zQZA7bb2g DtnY50kQvXMyI+ijJCU0JCNlVyGLEEFWa63EKkWOqaBBJxl09DXRpXyDZjdCZwoQ /h6z7OrOwhfGJ7psnO0hzvbqs/iPnyy/cNRmByHrWOyphwHRWtG6Vz1g0ICDER3P k6EJa4V1b7tLGFEv9mXJk9zQTjsUxFP9nQTU6RiS/rVwV/5kV0F6eUt98OaZvBeI kSWOUGkVSEIj2FcWknyK =wCmV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --IJpNTDwzlM2Ie8A6--