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| author | Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> | 2026-02-26 09:08:45 +0100 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2026-03-09 17:05:48 +0100 |
| commit | 7d7501b66a244398c72fcf02cb57bb704cb5f2fa (patch) | |
| tree | 256a70a61391149e8ebc2be68114170d094527b3 | |
| parent | cd002b58ecbf44054238223941b8f7e5c2f5233a (diff) | |
fbtft: Update REAMDE to slow down the stream of undesired cleanups
Lately the enormous amount of some untested cleanups started coming
to a mailing list. This adds an unneeded and undesired burden on
the reviewers and maintainers. Try to stop that by clearly state
what we accept and on what conditions in the README file.
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260226080845.4081732-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/staging/fbtft/README | 29 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 22 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/staging/fbtft/README b/drivers/staging/fbtft/README index ba4c74c92e4c..91f152d622bd 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/fbtft/README +++ b/drivers/staging/fbtft/README @@ -6,27 +6,12 @@ The module 'fbtft' makes writing drivers for some of these displays very easy. Development is done on a Raspberry Pi running the Raspbian "wheezy" distribution. -INSTALLATION - Download kernel sources +For new hardware support consider using DRM subsystem (see TODO). - From Linux 3.15 - cd drivers/video/fbdev/fbtft - git clone https://github.com/notro/fbtft.git +NOTE: - Add to drivers/video/fbdev/Kconfig: source "drivers/video/fbdev/fbtft/Kconfig" - Add to drivers/video/fbdev/Makefile: obj-y += fbtft/ - - Before Linux 3.15 - cd drivers/video - git clone https://github.com/notro/fbtft.git - - Add to drivers/video/Kconfig: source "drivers/video/fbtft/Kconfig" - Add to drivers/video/Makefile: obj-y += fbtft/ - - Enable driver(s) in menuconfig and build the kernel - - -See wiki for more information: https://github.com/notro/fbtft/wiki - - -Source: https://github.com/notro/fbtft/ +The driver is in maintenance mode, only performance issue or bug fixes +are accepted, which effectively means the patches must be tested on +the real hardware (the patch must be accompanied with the information +what hardware is that). The treewide changes may also be accepted as +an exception. |