Hi, On 10/02/2014 05:49 PM, Stephen Warren wrote: > On 10/02/2014 12:42 AM, Hans de Goede wrote: > ... >> The whole reason why we want to use simplefb is not just to get things >> running until HW specific driver is in place, but also to have early console >> output (to help debugging boot problems on devices without a serial console), >> in a world where most video drivers are build as loadable modules, so we >> won't have video output until quite late into the boot process. > > That's a very different use-case than what was originally envisaged.
I realize that, it is always amazing what sort of uses code finds once it is out there in the wild :) > > ... >> You indicate that you don't have the time for this discussion, and I note >> that >> there is no MAINTAINERS entry for drivers/video/fbdev/simplefb.c . So how >> about >> the following, I pick up drivers/video/fbdev/simplefb.c maintainership, >> adding >> MAINTAINERS entry for it with my name in it. Then as the maintainer it will >> be >> my responsibility (and in my own benefit) to stop this from growing into >> a monster ? > > I have no issue with you being the maintainer. Great, I'll send a patch for MAINTAINERS for this then. > I would suggest you track down whoever it was that was involved in the > original discussion and objected to simplefb performing resource management, > and get their explicit ack for the addition of clocks/regulators/... to it. > But, that's just a suggestion. I appreciate the suggestion, but various people involved have been discussing this for over a month now. All arguments in favor and against have been made many times now, and I doubt that those people (in sofar as they are not already involved in the discussion) will have anything new to add. IMHO we've come at a point here where a decision needs to be made how to deal with this, because any decision, is better then no decision (and thus no progress) at all. I fully commit myself to actively maintain simplefb, and deal with any fallout, for the foreseeable future. Regards, Hans -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "linux-sunxi" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
