On 13/08/2018 20:18:08+0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > > Would be good to have a plan to phase-out the old atmel_lcdfb fbdev > > driver when this one addresses some TODO items that make sense. > Agree on this. > One approach could be to say that when all in-kernel users of atmel_lcdfb > are ported, then the old driver could be dropped after a kernel release. > I would drop it only after an LTS release. > > The mfd suffix seems strange to me. What about "atmel,at91sam9263-lcdc-mfd" > > => "atmel,at91sam9263-lcd" (or "microchip,at91sam9263-lcdc"). > The "-mfd" suffix was added to avoid clashing with the current > compatible string used by the atmel_lcdfb driver. > > I susggest we do the following: > - use the microchip prefix, as this is now owned by microchip > - and add the driver to a drm/microchip/ directory > (Then we can only hope that microchip do not change name or > are purchased by someone else). > The compatible string should remain the same but the drivers have to be mutually exclusive in Kconfig. -- Alexandre Belloni, Bootlin Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering https://bootlin.com
