Subject: [GIT PULL] move ARM LCD display driver to auxdisplay

From: [email-masked] (Maxime Ripard)
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2016 13:57:58 +0200

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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Maxime Ripard, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
http://free-electrons.com
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