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Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2016 00:18:45 +0200 From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de> To: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@...e-electrons.com> Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>, "arm@...nel.org" <arm@...nel.org>, "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, "linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>, Miguel Ojeda Sandonis <maxextreme@...il.com> Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] move ARM LCD display driver to auxdisplay On Monday 25 April 2016 13:57:58 Maxime Ripard wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 11:43:58AM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote: > > Hi ARM SoC guys, > > > > these two patches move the ARM character LCD driver from > > misc drivers to the auxdisplay subsystem where it belongs and > > updates the defconfig for the RealView accordingly. > > > > Please pull it into some cleanup branch in the ARM SoC > > tree. > > > > I tried to get some ACK from the auxdisplay maintainer but no > > reaction. > > Auxdisplay is not a new framework, but rather a very old one. > > It got introduced in 2.6.21, and only received a couple of drivers > since. > > It seems to be quite redundant with fbdev deferred_io, which itself is > almost deprecated these days. I'm holding off on this pull request for now then. I'd certainly like to see the driver get moved out of drivers/misc, let me know once there has been an agreement of where it should go. Arnd
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