Re: [PATCH] staging/xgifb: Needs to be converted to a drm driver

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Wed, Jan 16, 2019 at 11:04:40AM +0100, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> The fbdev subsystem is closed for new drivers, those need to become
> drm ones (which generally results in smaller drivers nowadays, with
> the massive amounts of shared infrastructure and helper libraries drm
> has).
> 
> Although given the lack of progress since 2010, maybe time to ditch it
> from staging outright?
> 
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>
> Cc: Arnaud Patard <arnaud.patard@rtp-net.org>
> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/xgifb/TODO | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

No one has done anything with this code for over the past year, so I'll
just go delete it, after applying this patch, so that if it does get
reverted, the TODO item will stay :)

thanks,

greg k-h