[PATCH v1 0/4] fbtft: Unorphan the driver for maintenance

[Andy Shevchenko]

On Wed, Jan 26, 2022 at 10:52 AM Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann at suse.de> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> Am 25.01.22 um 21:21 schrieb Andy Shevchenko:
> > Since we got a maintainer for fbdev, I would like to
> > unorphan fbtft (with the idea of sending PRs to Helge)
> > and move it out of staging since there is no more clean
> > up work expected and no more drivers either.
> >
> > Thoughts?

Thanks for sharing yours, my answers below.

> But why? We already have DRM drivers for some of these devices.

No, we do not (only a few are available).

> Porting
> the others to DRM is such a better long-term plan.  OTOH, as no one has
> shown up and converted them, maybe they should be left dead or removed
> entirely.

As I mentioned above there are devices that nobody will take time to
port to a way too complex DRM subsystem. But the devices are cheap and
quite widespread in the embedded world. I'm in possession of 3 or 4
different models and only 1 is supported by tiny DRM.

On top of that the subtle fact people forgot about FBTFT is that it
does support parallel interface (yes, I know that it's not performant,
but one of the displays I have is with that type of interface).

P.S. For the record, I will personally NAK any attempts to remove that
driver from the kernel. And this is another point why it's better not
to be under the staging.

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko