Hello Sam, On 6/9/22 19:23, Sam Ravnborg wrote: [snip] > > To repeat myself from irc. > olpc_dcon is a staging driver and we should avoid inventing anything in > core code for to make staging drivers works. > Geert suggested EXPORT_SYMPBOL_NS_GPL() that could work and narrow it > down to olpc_dcon. > The better approach is to mark said driver BROKEN and then someone can > fix it it there is anyone who cares. > Last commit to olpc_dcon was in 2019: e40219d5e4b2177bfd4d885e7b64e3b236af40ac > and maybe Jerry Lin cares enough to fix it. > > Added Jerry and Greg to the mail. > > Sam > That does sound like the best approach indeed. And if the driver is kept BROKEN for a few releases then it can just remove it from the kernel. If someone still uses/cares about the driver, they can fix it as you said, and it could even be ported to DRM if is something that's still useful. -- Best regards, Javier Martinez Canillas Linux Engineering Red Hat
