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

From	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [GIT PULL] move ARM LCD display driver to auxdisplay
Date	2016-04-29 09:50 +0200
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On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 11:26 AM, Maxime Ripard
<maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com> wrote:

> Still, moving it to a "framework" that has been inactive for so long
> (and you even mention it in your PR) doesn't seem like the right move.

I still think sorting the driver into the right bucket has a value.

When/if the Linux LCD support gets an upstream push they
will know where to put their stuff: here, and then common stuff
can be abstracted. With drivers floating around in misc the
situation is even worse. http://lcd-linux.sourceforge.net/

Yours,
Linus Walleij

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