From: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>
To: "Noralf Trønnes" <noralf@tronnes.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>,
devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] staging: fbtft: use pr_fmt
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2015 16:08:48 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150911103848.GB15689@sudip-pc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55F1B39B.70909@tronnes.org>
On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 06:45:15PM +0200, Noralf Trønnes wrote:
>
> 10.09.2015 06:54, skrev Sudip Mukherjee:
> >On Wed, Sep 09, 2015 at 11:20:08PM +0200, Noralf Trønnes wrote:
> >>Den 09.09.2015 20:35, skrev Greg Kroah-Hartman:
> >>>On Sat, Sep 05, 2015 at 07:13:45PM +0530, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> >>>>Instead of defining DRVNAME and using it in all calls to pr_* family of
> >>>>macros lets start using pr_fmt.
> >>>>
> >>>>Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip@vectorindia.org>
> >>>>---
> >>>> drivers/staging/fbtft/fbtft_device.c | 79 ++++++++++++++++--------------------
> >>>> 1 file changed, 35 insertions(+), 44 deletions(-)
> >>[...]
> >>
<snip>
> >Is this driver only for Raspberry Pi?
> >I have seen someone submitted a drm driver for Raspberry Pi. And I guess
> >that is already merged.
> >Tomi (fbdev maintainer) said "Fremebuffer driver will be obsolete
> >immediately when there's a DRM driver for that device". And if a drm
> >driver is already there for Raspberry Pi then ?
>
> Not sure what you refer to as driver here.
>
> The fbtft module presents a simplistic view of fbdev through
> 'struct fbtft_par' which the various fbtft drivers use.
>
> fbtft_device is just a kernel module that can add spi and platform
> devices to the kernel and it can be used on all platforms. It's not a
> driver of any kind. It really does what Device Tree does, it adds devices.
>
> vc4 is an upcoming DRM driver for the BCM2835 display hardware (hdmi).
> This has nothing to do with the fbtft drivers which target SPI/parallel
> bus connected displays with onboard video memory.
Ok, Thanks for explaining. Since this is using calls to framebuffer I
thought this to be a framebuffer driver.
Anyways, I will modify the patch as suggested by Greg.
regards
sudip
prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-09-11 10:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-09-05 13:43 [PATCH 1/3] staging: fbtft: use strncpy instead of strcpy Sudip Mukherjee
2015-09-05 13:43 ` [PATCH 2/3] staging: fbtft: do not use magic numbers Sudip Mukherjee
2015-09-05 13:43 ` [PATCH 3/3] staging: fbtft: use pr_fmt Sudip Mukherjee
2015-09-09 18:35 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-09-09 21:20 ` Noralf Trønnes
2015-09-10 4:54 ` Sudip Mukherjee
2015-09-10 16:45 ` Noralf Trønnes
2015-09-11 10:38 ` Sudip Mukherjee [this message]
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