linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1 1/4] fbtft: Unorphan the driver

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Message-ID: <CAPj87rPMOP6W0u5y3FNfpGXHqPbMyLn4JThMY_6+AZLiy0UD5g@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 26 Jan 2022 13:22:52 +0000
From:   Daniel Stone <daniel@...ishbar.org>
To:     Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andy@...nel.org>, linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org,
        Michael Hennerich <michael.hennerich@...log.com>,
        Helge Deller <deller@....de>, linux-staging@...ts.linux.dev,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
        Phillip Potter <phil@...lpotter.co.uk>,
        Carlis <zhangxuezhi1@...ong.com>,
        Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org>,
        Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/4] fbtft: Unorphan the driver

Hi,

On Wed, 26 Jan 2022 at 13:08, Andy Shevchenko
<andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com> wrote:
> It's not useful to bury the /dev/fbX out for the devices that
> the use of are black-and-white output on small embedded systems.

It's not useful to decide that such systems should only be supported
by a subsystem which has been deprecated for a long time and which has
little userspace support. It's also not useful to spend time working
on that subsystem, rather than the one everyone has agreed on for the
last 15 years, is supported by userspace, is expressive, and has a
kernel subsystem which isn't a forest of CVEs and broken locking.

Cheers,
Daniel