[PATCH] fbdev: annotate rivafb/nvidiafb as obsolete

Emil Velikov emil.l.velikov at gmail.com
Wed May 13 21:53:42 UTC 2020


Drivers have not seen any love for years.

Be that fixes or improvements, or cosmetics like introducing symbolic
names, style and code-flow polish.

Seemingly the maintainer has also disappeared years ago :-\

Considering nouveau supports all that hardware (modulo nv03) just mark
these as obsolete/broken, referring to nouveau in the help text.

Cc: Antonino Daplas <adaplas at gmail.com>
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie at samsung.com>
Cc: linux-fbdev at vger.kernel.org
Cc: dri-devel at lists.freedesktop.org
Signed-off-by: Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov at gmail.com>
---
 MAINTAINERS                           | 3 +--
 arch/powerpc/configs/g5_defconfig     | 2 --
 arch/powerpc/configs/pasemi_defconfig | 2 --
 arch/powerpc/configs/pmac32_defconfig | 2 --
 arch/powerpc/configs/ppc6xx_defconfig | 3 ---
 drivers/video/fbdev/Kconfig           | 6 ++++++
 6 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 515a81fdb7d6..cc9da9a1e230 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -11247,9 +11247,8 @@ F:	include/linux/nubus.h
 F:	include/uapi/linux/nubus.h
 
 NVIDIA (rivafb and nvidiafb) FRAMEBUFFER DRIVER
-M:	Antonino Daplas <adaplas at gmail.com>
 L:	linux-fbdev at vger.kernel.org
-S:	Maintained
+S:	Obsolete
 F:	drivers/video/fbdev/riva/
 F:	drivers/video/fbdev/nvidia/
 
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/configs/g5_defconfig b/arch/powerpc/configs/g5_defconfig
index ceb3c770786f..24225e39662a 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/configs/g5_defconfig
+++ b/arch/powerpc/configs/g5_defconfig
@@ -130,8 +130,6 @@ CONFIG_FB=y
 CONFIG_FIRMWARE_EDID=y
 CONFIG_FB_TILEBLITTING=y
 CONFIG_FB_OF=y
-CONFIG_FB_NVIDIA=y
-CONFIG_FB_NVIDIA_I2C=y
 CONFIG_FB_RADEON=y
 # CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE is not set
 CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE=y
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/configs/pasemi_defconfig b/arch/powerpc/configs/pasemi_defconfig
index c0423b2cf7c0..36b242efae9a 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/configs/pasemi_defconfig
+++ b/arch/powerpc/configs/pasemi_defconfig
@@ -107,8 +107,6 @@ CONFIG_DRM_RADEON=y
 CONFIG_FIRMWARE_EDID=y
 CONFIG_FB_TILEBLITTING=y
 CONFIG_FB_VGA16=y
-CONFIG_FB_NVIDIA=y
-CONFIG_FB_NVIDIA_I2C=y
 CONFIG_FB_RADEON=y
 # CONFIG_LCD_CLASS_DEVICE is not set
 CONFIG_VGACON_SOFT_SCROLLBACK=y
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/configs/pmac32_defconfig b/arch/powerpc/configs/pmac32_defconfig
index 50b610b48914..ef4470d44763 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/configs/pmac32_defconfig
+++ b/arch/powerpc/configs/pmac32_defconfig
@@ -211,8 +211,6 @@ CONFIG_FB_PLATINUM=y
 CONFIG_FB_VALKYRIE=y
 CONFIG_FB_CT65550=y
 CONFIG_FB_IMSTT=y
-CONFIG_FB_NVIDIA=y
-CONFIG_FB_NVIDIA_I2C=y
 CONFIG_FB_MATROX=y
 CONFIG_FB_MATROX_MILLENIUM=y
 CONFIG_FB_MATROX_MYSTIQUE=y
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/configs/ppc6xx_defconfig b/arch/powerpc/configs/ppc6xx_defconfig
index 7c6baf6df139..5b4e26de0bcf 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/configs/ppc6xx_defconfig
+++ b/arch/powerpc/configs/ppc6xx_defconfig
@@ -752,9 +752,6 @@ CONFIG_FB_OF=y
 CONFIG_FB_PLATINUM=y
 CONFIG_FB_VALKYRIE=y
 CONFIG_FB_CT65550=y
-CONFIG_FB_NVIDIA=y
-CONFIG_FB_NVIDIA_I2C=y
-CONFIG_FB_RIVA=m
 CONFIG_FB_MATROX=y
 CONFIG_FB_MATROX_MILLENIUM=y
 CONFIG_FB_MATROX_MYSTIQUE=y
diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/Kconfig b/drivers/video/fbdev/Kconfig
index 1b2f5f31fb6f..cad3e4bc5e52 100644
--- a/drivers/video/fbdev/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/Kconfig
@@ -868,6 +868,7 @@ config FB_ATMEL
 
 config FB_NVIDIA
 	tristate "nVidia Framebuffer Support"
+	depends on BROKEN
 	depends on FB && PCI
 	select FB_BACKLIGHT if FB_NVIDIA_BACKLIGHT
 	select FB_MODE_HELPERS
@@ -877,6 +878,8 @@ config FB_NVIDIA
 	select BITREVERSE
 	select VGASTATE
 	help
+	  Obsolete, use nouveau instead.
+
 	  This driver supports graphics boards with the nVidia chips, TNT
 	  and newer. For very old chipsets, such as the RIVA128, then use
 	  the rivafb.
@@ -915,6 +918,7 @@ config FB_NVIDIA_BACKLIGHT
 
 config FB_RIVA
 	tristate "nVidia Riva support"
+	depends on BROKEN
 	depends on FB && PCI
 	select FB_BACKLIGHT if FB_RIVA_BACKLIGHT
 	select FB_MODE_HELPERS
@@ -924,6 +928,8 @@ config FB_RIVA
 	select BITREVERSE
 	select VGASTATE
 	help
+	  Obsolete, use nouveau instead.
+
 	  This driver supports graphics boards with the nVidia Riva/Geforce
 	  chips.
 	  Say Y if you have such a graphics board.
-- 
2.25.1



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