Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 25 Apr 2016 13:57:58 +0200 | From | Maxime Ripard <> | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] move ARM LCD display driver to auxdisplay |
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Hi,
On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 11:43:58AM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote: > Hi ARM SoC guys, > > these two patches move the ARM character LCD driver from > misc drivers to the auxdisplay subsystem where it belongs and > updates the defconfig for the RealView accordingly. > > Please pull it into some cleanup branch in the ARM SoC > tree. > > I tried to get some ACK from the auxdisplay maintainer but no > reaction.
Auxdisplay is not a new framework, but rather a very old one.
It got introduced in 2.6.21, and only received a couple of drivers since.
It seems to be quite redundant with fbdev deferred_io, which itself is almost deprecated these days.
Maxime
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