Am 2016-03-05 um 18:40 schrieb gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx: > On Sat, Mar 05, 2016 at 06:02:09PM +0100, Martin Kepplinger wrote: >> Hi GregKH, >> >> In looking around what I could do in the mid-future, possibly as a GSoC >> project (?), I have 2 questions: >> >> Is there active ongoing work on getting rid of drivers/auxdisplay? There >> are 2 drivers left in there... If not, would that be desired? > > I really do not know, do you have the hardware for those devices? > >> What is the status of fbtft? Moving drivers *in* to staging feels wrong, >> but fbtft isn't yet present in the main tree. I would guess that fbtft >> is where these auxdisplay drivers could go. Would you put them into >> another area? fbdev? > > There's a thread in the archives somewhere that talks about moving fbtft > into being a "real" drm driver. I suggest you look into that if you are > curious. > >> Different topic: IIO: I have ideas for mma8452 driver additions, and >> along this way, additions to the iio sysfs ABI. Would it make sense to >> lay this out and make a project out of it? > > That might be good, care to go into more details about this? > just for the record, I won't do a GSoC project this year. Thought it through, too little time, less than any usual year. Consider auxdisplay and fbtft a suggestion for anyone who is reading this. Ask a relevant list why the auxdisplay directory is there, get the hardware and rewrite those 2 drivers. I'll continue working on the iio list on various stuff as time permits and see what happens next year regarding a different task. ... And I know fixing -rc1 will come up more often that I would like it :) > thanks, > > greg k-h > > _______________________________________________ > Kernelnewbies mailing list > Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies > _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
