linux-kernel - [PATCH 2/2] staging/xgifb: Needs to be converted to a drm driver

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Message-Id: <20190115102755.16183-2-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Date:   Tue, 15 Jan 2019 11:27:55 +0100
From:   Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...ll.ch>
To:     DRI Development <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...ll.ch>,
        Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...el.com>,
        Arnaud Patard <arnaud.patard@...-net.org>
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] staging/xgifb: Needs to be converted to a drm driver

Although given the lack of progress since 2010, maybe time to ditch it
from staging outright?

Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...el.com>
Cc: Arnaud Patard <arnaud.patard@...-net.org>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...ll.ch>
---
 drivers/staging/xgifb/TODO | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/xgifb/TODO b/drivers/staging/xgifb/TODO
index 7eb99140a399..a1e25957bf1b 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/xgifb/TODO
+++ b/drivers/staging/xgifb/TODO
@@ -9,5 +9,8 @@ TODO:
 - remove useless/wrong/unused code...
 - get rid of non-linux related stuff
 
+This needs to become a drm driver, the fbdev subsystem doesn't take new drivers
+anymore.
+
 Please send patches to:
 Arnaud Patard <arnaud.patard@...-net.org>
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