Re: [GIT PULL] move ARM LCD display driver to auxdisplay

From	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [GIT PULL] move ARM LCD display driver to auxdisplay
Date	2016-04-26 00:20 +0200
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On Monday 25 April 2016 13:57:58 Maxime Ripard wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 11:43:58AM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:
> > Hi ARM SoC guys,
> > 
> > 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.
> > 
> > Please pull it into some cleanup branch in the ARM SoC
> > tree.
> > 
> > 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.

I'm holding off on this pull request for now then.

I'd certainly like to see the driver get moved out of drivers/misc,
let me know once there has been an agreement of where it should go.

	Arnd

Thread

[GIT PULL] move ARM LCD display driver to auxdisplay Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> - 2016-04-23 11:50 +0200
  Re: [GIT PULL] move ARM LCD display driver to auxdisplay Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com> - 2016-04-25 14:00 +0200
    Re: [GIT PULL] move ARM LCD display driver to auxdisplay Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2016-04-26 00:20 +0200
    Re: [GIT PULL] move ARM LCD display driver to auxdisplay Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> - 2016-04-26 12:50 +0200
      Re: [GIT PULL] move ARM LCD display driver to auxdisplay Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com> - 2016-04-28 11:30 +0200

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