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Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 0/4] fbtft: Unorphan the driver for maintenance
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To:     Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>,
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From:   Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@redhat.com>
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On 1/26/22 14:18, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 26, 2022 at 01:56:11PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 26, 2022 at 01:37:00PM +0100, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
>>> On 1/26/22 11:28, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> 
> ...
> 
>>>    fb_hx8347d.c (DRM driver in drivers/gpu/drm/tiny/hx8357d.c)
>>>    fb_hx8357d.c (DRM driver in drivers/gpu/drm/tiny/hx8357d.c)
>>>    fb_ili9163.c (DRM driver in drivers/gpu/drm/tiny/ili9163.c)
>>>    fb_ili9341.c (DRM driver in drivers/gpu/drm/tiny/mi0283qt.c ?)
>>>    fb_ili9486.c (DRM driver in drivers/gpu/drm/tiny/ili9486.c)
>>>    fb_st7735r.c (DRM driver in drivers/gpu/drm/tiny/st7735r.c)
>>>    fb_st7789v.c (DRM driver in drivers/gpu/drm/panel/panel-sitronix-st7789v.c)
>>
>> I'll gladly take a patch that deletes the fb_* files that are already
>> handled by a DRM driver like you list here.
> 
> None of the DRM driver supports parallel interface for these devices.
> 

Thanks for the info. Then we can't remove any of these drivers indeed.

Best regards,
-- 
Javier Martinez Canillas
Linux Engineering
Red Hat