Re: [PATCH] video: fbdev: remove skeletonfb example driver with no remaining purpose

On 6/8/26 10:03, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:

On Sun, 7 Jun 2026 at 03:58, Ethan Nelson-Moore [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

The skeletonfb driver is intended to serve as an example for writing
new framebuffer drivers. However, new framebuffer drivers are no longer
accepted into the kernel because DRM has obsoleted fbdev, so it no
longer has a purpose. In spite of this, it continues to be updated to
reflect fbdev API changes, wasting maintainers' time. 

I don't want to argue, but the last update was 3 years ago, so
I don't see that much wasted time.

Remove it.

quoted

Signed-off-by: Ethan Nelson-Moore <redacted>

Thanks for your patch!

Makes sense, as we still have vfb.c, which can actually be built.
Perhaps some of the comments and/or kerneldoc should be moved
elsewhere, so it is preserved?

That's what I'm mostly concerned about.
It has so much (still) useful info, that it would be sad to loose that.
Looking up the info in an already deleted file isn't a good alternative.
So, either someone should move comments/info over, or I'd like to keep it
for some more time as it's not actually hurting anybody.

Helge