[Intel-gfx] [PATCH v2 14/14] auxdisplay: constify fb ops

[robin]

On 2019-11-29 21:59, Miguel Ojeda wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 29, 2019 at 9:30 PM Daniel Vetter <daniel at ffwll.ch> wrote:
>> 
>> Well we do have very small lcd display drivers in drm, and before that 
>> in
>> fbdev. And you have a fbdev framebuffer driver in there, which looks a 
>> bit
>> misplaced ...
>> 
>> Afaiui you also have some even tinier lcd drivers where you don't 
>> address
>> pixels, but just directly upload text, and those obviously don't fit 
>> into
>> drm/fbdev world. But anything where you can address pixels very much 
>> does.
>> -Daniel
> 
> The first driver in the category used fb.h. At the time (~13 years
> ago) it was decided that the drivers should go into a different
> category/folder instead and then the other were added.
> 
> In any case, I am removing the original ones since I cannot test them
> anymore and there are likely no user. The only other fb user could be
> relocated if Robin agrees.

The ht16k33 driver registers a framebuffer, backlight and input device.
Not sure if it's OK to let a driver under fbdev register all of those,
but relocating it is fine by me.

Robin