[RFC PATCH 0/3] staging: remove fbdev drivers

[Andy Shevchenko]

On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 12:05 PM, Thomas Petazzoni
<thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Nov 2016 11:12:32 +0200, Tomi Valkeinen wrote:

>> Or do you mean that we should keep the drivers in staging until there's
>> a matching DRM driver, but drop any plans to move the drivers from
>> staging to drivers/video/? If so, I'm fine with that. This is an RFC,
>> mostly to raise some discussion and push people to actually write those
>> DRM drivers =).
>
> The very reason why I submitted those drivers for staging is because
> lots and lots of people were using out of tree kernel modules for these
> drivers, which was really a pain.
>
> If you now remove those drivers from staging, then those folks will be
> back in the situation they originally were, using annoying out of tree
> modules.
>
> I'm all for removing fbtft drivers progressively as a matching
> DRM-based driver is available for the same hardware. However, if there
> is no DRM-based support for a given piece of hardware supported by
> fbtft, I'd prefer if we kept the fbtft driver for this hardware.

Too many people are playing with big things, I vote +1 to *leave*
fbtft for people who prefer small on big.

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko