Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753183AbcLHOoe (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Dec 2016 09:44:34 -0500 Received: from mail-io0-f196.google.com ([209.85.223.196]:33558 "EHLO mail-io0-f196.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751139AbcLHOoc (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Dec 2016 09:44:32 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20161208153735.74d7d350@free-electrons.com> 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> <20161208153735.74d7d350@free-electrons.com> From: Geert Uytterhoeven Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2016 15:44:30 +0100 X-Google-Sender-Auth: WJ_Pre9XxrEfcR_756BtwNx-l5I Message-ID: Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] staging: remove fbdev drivers To: Thomas Petazzoni Cc: Daniel Vetter , Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Tomi Valkeinen , Greg Kroah-Hartman , =?UTF-8?Q?Noralf_Tr=C3=B8nnes?= , Sudip Mukherjee , Teddy Wang , Arnaud Patard , DRI Development , Linux Fbdev development list , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1224 Lines: 35 Hi Thomas, On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 3:37 PM, Thomas Petazzoni wrote: > 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. No, I wasn't thinking about I2C or SPI connected displays, but about simple dumb memory-mapped frame buffers, which is what fbdev was initially developed for. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds