On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 08:49:08PM +0200, Peter Huewe wrote: > Hi, > > Greg's post earlier today about the status of the staging tree drew my > attention to the panel driver. > > - panel. Another one that should be simple to merge. Anyone? > > And as I have some spare time on my hands and > thought I might takeover this task - or atleast add some improvements. :) > I think this project might suit me well, as I already wrote some lcd-related > drivers (e.g. for an powerpc eval board) and moreover I have one of these > lcds here :) > > I alread had a look at the source and before really getting started with it I > want to discuss one of the issues in the TODO list: > - see if all of this could be easier done in userspace instead. > > My question is why not using lcdproc [1] instead - it can access keypads and > HD44780-like 8-bit parallel LCDs. > > So what do you think? > > Willy, the author of the driver, answered my question like this: > > > Why didn't you just use lcdproc - it supports HD44780-like 8-bit parallel > > > LCD and Keypads. > > > > hey, just because lcdproc did not exist when I wrote this driver :-) It's > > 10 years old ! Also, in userspace you can't display kernel messages and > > you can't easily emulate a device. Here, it's pretty easy to run a > > menu-based interface in a shell script : > > > > while :; do > > read key > > case key in > > 'Up') ... > > ... > > esac > > echo "Blah" > > done </dev/keypad >/dev/lcd > > > > I did not push for the driver to be included, a user proposed to do so, > > so the driver got merged. Since it was in horrible shape, I sent a few > > cleanup patches to Greg (among which some used to remove the smartcard > > driver). > > I'm looking forward to your replies ;) Well, if it all can work in userspace using lcdproc, that's great. As long as everyone agrees that's the best way, I'll be glad to drop the driver, just let me know. thanks, greg k-h _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
