[PATCH] fbdev/intelfb: Remove driver

[Helge Deller]

On 1/5/24 10:10, Thomas Zimmermann wrote:
>  From looking at the PCI IDs, every device supported by intelfb is
> also supported by i915. Anyone still using intelfb should please
> move on to i915, which does everything intelfb does but better.
>
> Removing intelfb is motivated by the driver's excessive use of the
> global screen_info state. The state belongs to architecture and
> firmware code; device drivers should not attempt to access it. But
> fixing intelfb would require a significant change in the driver's
> probing logic. As intelfb has been obsolete for nearly 2 decades,
> it is probably not worth the effort. Let's just remove it. Also
> remove the related documentation.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann at suse.de>
> ---
>   Documentation/fb/index.rst                    |    1 -
>   Documentation/fb/intelfb.rst                  |  155 --
>   .../userspace-api/ioctl/ioctl-number.rst      |    1 -
>   MAINTAINERS                                   |    7 -
>   drivers/Makefile                              |    3 +-
>   drivers/video/fbdev/Kconfig                   |   39 -
>   drivers/video/fbdev/intelfb/Makefile          |    8 -
>   drivers/video/fbdev/intelfb/intelfb.h         |  382 ---
>   drivers/video/fbdev/intelfb/intelfb_i2c.c     |  209 --
>   drivers/video/fbdev/intelfb/intelfbdrv.c      | 1680 -------------
>   drivers/video/fbdev/intelfb/intelfbhw.c       | 2115 -----------------
>   drivers/video/fbdev/intelfb/intelfbhw.h       |  609 -----
>   12 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 5208 deletions(-)
>   delete mode 100644 Documentation/fb/intelfb.rst
>   delete mode 100644 drivers/video/fbdev/intelfb/Makefile
>   delete mode 100644 drivers/video/fbdev/intelfb/intelfb.h
>   delete mode 100644 drivers/video/fbdev/intelfb/intelfb_i2c.c
>   delete mode 100644 drivers/video/fbdev/intelfb/intelfbdrv.c
>   delete mode 100644 drivers/video/fbdev/intelfb/intelfbhw.c
>   delete mode 100644 drivers/video/fbdev/intelfb/intelfbhw.h

applied to fbdev git tree.

Thanks!
Helge