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

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Message-Id: <20190116100440.10071-1-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Date:   Wed, 16 Jan 2019 11:04:40 +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>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: [PATCH] staging/xgifb: Needs to be converted to a drm driver

The fbdev subsystem is closed for new drivers, those need to become
drm ones (which generally results in smaller drivers nowadays, with
the massive amounts of shared infrastructure and helper libraries drm
has).

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>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
---
 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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