linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] fbdev: Remove support for Carillo Ranch driver

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Message-ID: <20231213114207.GJ111411@google.com>
Date:   Wed, 13 Dec 2023 11:42:07 +0000
From:   Lee Jones <lee@...nel.org>
To:     Helge Deller <deller@....de>
Cc:     "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@...radead.org>,
        linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org,
        dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>,
        Andy Lowe <alowe@...sta.com>,
        Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@...are.com>,
        Alan Hourihane <alanh@...rlite.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] fbdev: Remove support for Carillo Ranch driver

On Tue, 12 Dec 2023, Helge Deller wrote:

> On 12/8/23 23:47, Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) wrote:
> > As far as anybody can tell, this product never shipped.  If it did,
> > it shipped in 2007 and nobody has access to one any more.  Remove the
> > fbdev driver and the backlight driver.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@...radead.org>
> > ---
> >   drivers/video/backlight/Kconfig           |    7 -
> >   drivers/video/backlight/Makefile          |    1 -
> >   drivers/video/backlight/cr_bllcd.c        |  264 -----
> >   drivers/video/fbdev/Kconfig               |   15 -
> >   drivers/video/fbdev/Makefile              |    1 -
> >   drivers/video/fbdev/vermilion/Makefile    |    6 -
> >   drivers/video/fbdev/vermilion/cr_pll.c    |  195 ----
> >   drivers/video/fbdev/vermilion/vermilion.c | 1175 ---------------------
> >   drivers/video/fbdev/vermilion/vermilion.h |  245 -----
> >   9 files changed, 1909 deletions(-)
> >   delete mode 100644 drivers/video/backlight/cr_bllcd.c
> >   delete mode 100644 drivers/video/fbdev/vermilion/Makefile
> >   delete mode 100644 drivers/video/fbdev/vermilion/cr_pll.c
> >   delete mode 100644 drivers/video/fbdev/vermilion/vermilion.c
> >   delete mode 100644 drivers/video/fbdev/vermilion/vermilion.h
> 
> I've applied this patch to the fbdev git tree.
> It touches the backlight tree, so I hope it's ok for backlight people?

Better to ask for forgiveness than permission it seems! :)

-- 
Lee Jones [李琼斯]