From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757645AbaKTXgX (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Nov 2014 18:36:23 -0500 Received: from shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk ([88.96.1.126]:33163 "EHLO shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756600AbaKTXgW (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Nov 2014 18:36:22 -0500 Message-ID: <1416526571.7215.6.camel@decadent.org.uk> Subject: Re: [PATCH] Revert "staging: sm7xxfb: remove driver" From: Ben Hutchings To: Steven Rostedt Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , LKML , devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, Teddy Wang , Markos Chandras Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 23:36:11 +0000 In-Reply-To: <20141120170925.5a435436@gandalf.local.home> References: <20141120170925.5a435436@gandalf.local.home> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg="pgp-sha512"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-sDr8Exxsg5KLkUUFxplz" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.12.7-1 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 192.168.4.249 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ben@decadent.org.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on shadbolt.decadent.org.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --=-sDr8Exxsg5KLkUUFxplz Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 2014-11-20 at 17:09 -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote: > Someone reported a bug in the function graph tracer for MIPS. As I'm > still waiting on my USB serial for my Imagination MIPS board, I decided > to bring my Lemote Yeeloong laptop back up to the latest kernel. This > is where I noticed that the screen no longer displays anything. >=20 > I ran a bisect, which came across a staging commit that removed the > sm7xxfb driver. When I reverted it on a v3.18-rc5 kernel and booted it > on my Lemote laptop, the display worked again. >=20 > I then did a search for this commit and found that Debian reverted it > too. Seems that there's still some Debian users of this laptop. (RMS?) [...] I reverted the removal for our 3.16 branch only, as that's going into the Debian 8 'jessie' release. It's not included in our 3.17 packages and won't come back unless someone supports it upstream. That gives any interested developers another couple of years to rescue it if they want it in Debian 9 'stretch'. Ben. --=20 Ben Hutchings Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain. - Lily Tomlin --=-sDr8Exxsg5KLkUUFxplz Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIVAwUAVG566+e/yOyVhhEJAQor0hAApXKd7oDBc47uypiP1e8ZRQv+9AiCEMKt 2gk8Z3cL47beWSPUb06Fm/q5q1VeXRBffg87mJ9/bGytLIpebhteXz5oS/SJj1Ka mNQFNkUqCfhlMGJ31lr/EosiNSgfA478kbuTVSpcEIvRGW5LyCoL8wJumLCnD52M MQ2rtgNohcvJUpSe4l7eDXSjEOmbJWGI51BnRWhk3Zd452EFknTtvkvVvOfix1Sc hCvgIltgunLIQwi/AIbDHllWrdJ3pXmWcx9lza8FB0tvBJlHFfx4uSq/mzQQDfkv pMGS7+xfhzsYxKZlyNmY6Evy2825SWvu5Tdk254gVQBPo031BM2MEi/7OMFnFQRZ 1bXSVzuJyO/TG/kyYM1eer74Pgys37U+1ODkSvdQS9l271zFdox5KF3rwUo4dB2W V7VubjWUzM06iW0e5+46zgImoqpuBK+mg8zhsZHbsy5l4ghF2RTwoWPOpz8NtEGD lQmagJ/ax9gBr5OGFoB+YzvRmP26Tmq7FgAru/cRayN0wXwCrIJk0KlQi70gX9XF Ku6ZNXlh3kz1U5SFW+wucrxWnk6p8YseShIvUAqvvqWe/NO1DtYxNUNeMsA0dsc8 jLk+6cGrlbCiboGzOADqAR/N+ZCCt3syjOSriEAxN41i6+Q6sYH35PMaf1Q5DpzD zvcQ3Jxo+JM= =L5/d -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-sDr8Exxsg5KLkUUFxplz--