On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 12:05 PM, Thomas Petazzoni
[off-list ref] wrote:

On Wed, 23 Nov 2016 11:12:32 +0200, Tomi Valkeinen wrote:

quoted

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.

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko