[PATCH] drm/mxsfb: rename driver to mxsfb-drm

[Marek Vasut]

On 06/13/2018 03:52 PM, Fabio Estevam wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 9:38 AM, Stefan Agner <stefan at agner.ch> wrote:
> 
>> It seems to me a rather extreme measure though, given we could fix the
>> situation rather easily.
> 
> There are dtb's using the fbdev mxsfb driver like for example:
> arch/arm/boot/dts/imx28-evk.dts
> 
> If we kill the fbdev mxsfb driver then the display will stop working
> for some users and I don't think they will be happy.

Maybe it's time to fix them ?

Having two drivers for the same hardware in the kernel is a bad idea and
the new driver was in the kernel for long enough for the user of the old
deprecated bindings migrated over I think.

> Last time I tried it was not possible to use the original fbdev mxsfb
> bindings with the new drm driver.
> 
> Of course we can convert to the drm mxsfb driver, but IMHO we should
> avoid functional breakage all of a sudden.

The driver was in the kernel for over a year now though, so it's not new
and sudden anymore.

> In the meantime Stefan's patch seems to be a good approach.
> 


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Best regards,
Marek Vasut