Re: [PATCH] staging: olpc_dcon: mark driver as broken

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Fri, Jun 10, 2022 at 12:34:24AM +0200, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
> The commit eecb3e4e5d9d ("staging: olpc_dcon: add OLPC display controller
> (DCON) support") added this driver in 2010, and has been in staging since
> then. It was marked as broken at some point because it didn't even build
> but that got removed once the build issues were addressed.
> 
> But it seems that the work to move this driver out of staging has stalled,
> the last non-trivial change to fix one of the items mentioned in its todo
> file was commit e40219d5e4b2 ("staging: olpc_dcon: allow simultaneous XO-1
> and XO-1.5 support") in 2019.
> 
> And even if work to destage the driver is resumed, the fbdev subsystem has
> been deprecated for a long time and instead it should be ported to DRM.
> 
> Now this driver is preventing to land a kernel wide change, that makes the
> num_registered_fb symbol to be private to the fbmem.c file.
> 
> So let's just mark the driver as broken. Someone can then work on making
> it not depend on the num_registered_fb symbol, allowing to drop the broken
> dependency again.

Thanks for doing this, will go queue it up now for 5.19-final.

greg k-h