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

Miguel Ojeda miguel.ojeda.sandonis at gmail.com
Fri Nov 29 20:59:49 UTC 2019


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.

Cheers,
Miguel


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