linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] staging: remove fbdev drivers

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Date:   Wed, 23 Nov 2016 11:12:32 +0200
From:   Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@...com>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
CC:     <linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org>, <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
        Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@...e-electrons.com>,
        Noralf Trønnes <noralf@...nnes.org>,
        Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com>,
        Teddy Wang <teddy.wang@...iconmotion.com>,
        Arnaud Patard <arnaud.patard@...-net.org>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] staging: remove fbdev drivers

On 23/11/16 10:52, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 10:03:10AM +0200, Tomi Valkeinen wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Since the fbdev framework is in maintenance mode and all new display drivers
>> should be made with the DRM framework, remove the fbdev drivers from staging.
>>
>> Note: the patches are created with git format-patch -D, so they can't be
>> applied. Only for review.
> 
> I only want to remove these drivers if we have the same functionality in
> mainline for their hardware.  If not, that's a bit rude to those who
> actually use them today, don't you think?

What does it mean for a driver to be in staging? I thought it's
basically the same as the driver being out-of-tree, with the difference
that the code is in a central git repository for easier co-operation.

If that's what staging means, then I would reject the staging fbdev
drivers the same way as I'd reject new fbdev drivers sent as patches to
the list.

Or do you mean that we should keep the drivers in staging until there's
a matching DRM driver, but drop any plans to move the drivers from
staging to drivers/video/? If so, I'm fine with that. This is an RFC,
mostly to raise some discussion and push people to actually write those
DRM drivers =).

 Tomi

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