[RFC PATCH 0/7] add at91sam9 LCDC DRM driver

[Alexandre Belloni]

On 13/08/2018 20:18:08+0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> > Would be good to have a plan to phase-out the old atmel_lcdfb fbdev
> > driver when this one addresses some TODO items that make sense.
> Agree on this.
> One approach could be to say that when all in-kernel users of atmel_lcdfb
> are ported, then the old driver could be dropped after a kernel release.
> 

I would drop it only after an LTS release.

> > The mfd suffix seems strange to me. What about "atmel,at91sam9263-lcdc-mfd"
> > => "atmel,at91sam9263-lcd" (or "microchip,at91sam9263-lcdc").
> The "-mfd" suffix was added to avoid clashing with the current
> compatible string used by the atmel_lcdfb driver.
> 
> I susggest we do the following:
> - use the microchip prefix, as this is now owned by microchip
> - and add the driver to a drm/microchip/ directory
> (Then we can only hope that microchip do not change name or
> are purchased by someone else).
> 

The compatible string should remain the same but the drivers have to be
mutually exclusive in Kconfig.


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