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Message-ID: <20150910045420.GB32305@sudip-pc>
Date:	Thu, 10 Sep 2015 10:24:20 +0530
From:	Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com>
To:	Noralf Trønnes <noralf@...nnes.org>
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@...e-electrons.com>,
	devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] staging: fbtft: use pr_fmt

On Wed, Sep 09, 2015 at 11:20:08PM +0200, Noralf Trønnes wrote:
> 
> Den 09.09.2015 20:35, skrev Greg Kroah-Hartman:
> >On Sat, Sep 05, 2015 at 07:13:45PM +0530, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> >>Instead of defining DRVNAME and using it in all calls to pr_* family of
> >>macros lets start using pr_fmt.
> >>
> >>Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip@...torindia.org>
> >>---
> >>  drivers/staging/fbtft/fbtft_device.c | 79 ++++++++++++++++--------------------
> >>  1 file changed, 35 insertions(+), 44 deletions(-)
> 
> [...]
> 
> >If a driver is working properly, nothing should show up in the kernel
> >log at all, otherwise it's just noise that everyone ignores.
> 
> This isn't a device driver, it's a module for adding "fbtft" devices
> (spi/platform with pdata). When I created fbtft, the Raspberry Pi didn't
> have Device Tree support, so I made this module as a way for the end user
> to add devices without having to build a kernel.
> I haven't seen any module like this in the kernel, so maybe it
> really doesn't
> belong here at all?
Is this driver only for Raspberry Pi?
I have seen someone submitted a drm driver for Raspberry Pi. And I guess
that is already merged.
Tomi (fbdev maintainer) said "Fremebuffer  driver will be obsolete
immediately when there's a DRM driver for that device". And if a drm
driver is already there for Raspberry Pi then ?

regards
sudip
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