Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] [PATCH] remove cyblafb driver

[Krzysztof H. <krz...@po...>]

On Mon, 9 Mar 2009 13:34:32 -0700
Andrew Morton <ak...@li...> wrote:

> On Sat, 7 Mar 2009 23:49:02 +0100
> Krzysztof Helt <krz...@po...> wrote:
> 
> > A tridentfb driver has all functionality
> > of the cyblafb driver without bugs of
> > the latter.
> 
> So what are the implications of this for users?  They'll do an
> `oldconfig', will discover that their driver isn't there any more and
> will then need to dig around through commit messges to find out what
> happened to it?
> 
> I guess we can live with that, and I can't immediately think of a way
> of improving their lives, so ho hum..
> 
> 
> 

Well, a good stop gap is to rename a Kconfig option from
 "Trident support" to "Trident/CyberBlade support". It
should help find a new driver to users.

Regards,
Krzysztof


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