fbtft: 5 years in staging

Mon Feb 3 10:03:56 UTC 2020

On Sun, Feb 02, 2020 at 04:41:54PM +0100, Noralf Trønnes wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Since I'm the original author of fbtft I thought I'd highlight a couple
> of issues that's probably not well known.
> 
> Right after fbtft was added, fbdev was closed for new drivers[1] and
> the fbdev maintainer wanted to remove fbtft as a consequence of that
> decision, but Greg KH said he'd keep fbtft drivers in staging
> "until a matching DRM driver is present in the tree"[2].

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Thanks for the great summary, much appreciated.

greg k-h