Thread (22 messages) 22 messages, 6 authors, 2018-07-13

[PATCH 1/3] drm: mxsfb: Change driver.name to mxsfb-drm

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From: Leonard Crestez <hidden>
Date: 2018-06-15 20:58:15
Also in: dri-devel, linux-devicetree, linux-fbdev, lkml

On Fri, 2018-06-15 at 16:47 -0300, Fabio Estevam wrote:
On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 4:43 PM, Leonard Crestez
[off-list ref] wrote:
quoted
The FBDEV driver uses the same name and both can't be registered at the
same time. Fix this by renaming the drm driver to mxsfb-drm

Signed-off-by: Leonard Crestez <redacted>
Stefan sent the same patch a few days ago:
http://www.spinics.net/lists/dri-devel/msg179489.html
In that thread there is a proposal for removing the old fbdev/mxsfb
driver entirely.

That would break old DTBs, isn't this generally considered bad? Also,
are we sure the removal of fbdev/mxsfb wouldn't lose any features?

What my series does is make both drivers work with the same kernel
image and turns the choice into a board-level dtb decision. Supporting
everything at once seems desirable to me and it allows for a very
smooth upgrade path.

The old driver could be removed later, after all users are converted.

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Regards,
Leonard
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