Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753183AbcLHOhk (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Dec 2016 09:37:40 -0500 Received: from mail.free-electrons.com ([62.4.15.54]:44939 "EHLO mail.free-electrons.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752447AbcLHOhj (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Dec 2016 09:37:39 -0500 Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2016 15:37:35 +0100 From: Thomas Petazzoni To: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: Daniel Vetter , Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Tomi Valkeinen , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Noralf =?UTF-8?B?VHLDuG5uZXM=?= , Sudip Mukherjee , Teddy Wang , Arnaud Patard , DRI Development , Linux Fbdev development list , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] staging: remove fbdev drivers Message-ID: <20161208153735.74d7d350@free-electrons.com> In-Reply-To: References: <1479888193-23908-1-git-send-email-tomi.valkeinen@ti.com> <1481158879.26959.41.camel@kernel.crashing.org> <20161208101005.6ufl3d4qvwprosju@phenom.ffwll.local> <20161208140210.rfyjf2265flsfpfj@phenom.ffwll.local> Organization: Free Electrons X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.13.2 (GTK+ 2.24.30; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 734 Lines: 27 Hello, On Thu, 8 Dec 2016 15:22:09 +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > Wut. We have like 20+ small atomic drivers nowdays. > > That's fast! Only two weeks ago you said: > > | Bummer, they still haven't landed. But afaik there's at least 4 of > | them floating around in various places ... You're not talking about the same thing I believe. When Daniel says "small atomic drivers", he talks about the relatively small DRM drivers for SoC display controllers, such as the ones you can find in ARM SoCs. When you say "small driver", you're thinking about drivers for I2C or SPI connected displays. Best regards, Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering http://free-electrons.com