On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 12:05 PM, Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 23 Nov 2016 11:12:32 +0200, Tomi Valkeinen wrote: >> Or do you mean that we should keep the drivers in staging until there's >> a matching DRM driver, but drop any plans to move the drivers from >> staging to drivers/video/? If so, I'm fine with that. This is an RFC, >> mostly to raise some discussion and push people to actually write those >> DRM drivers =). > > The very reason why I submitted those drivers for staging is because > lots and lots of people were using out of tree kernel modules for these > drivers, which was really a pain. > > If you now remove those drivers from staging, then those folks will be > back in the situation they originally were, using annoying out of tree > modules. > > I'm all for removing fbtft drivers progressively as a matching > DRM-based driver is available for the same hardware. However, if there > is no DRM-based support for a given piece of hardware supported by > fbtft, I'd prefer if we kept the fbtft driver for this hardware. Too many people are playing with big things, I vote +1 to *leave* fbtft for people who prefer small on big. -- With Best Regards, Andy Shevchenko _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
