[PATCH] video: tegra: add tegra display controller and fb driver

Erik Gilling konkers at android.com
Wed Aug 25 20:02:24 EDT 2010


On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 5:00 PM, Ryan Mallon <ryan at bluewatersys.com> wrote:
>>> Its useful for debugging while developing the driver, but it adds a lot
>>> of code. Do you expect the register dumping features to be required once
>>> the driver hits mainline?
>>
>> I expect the driver will hit mainline is several phases.  This first
>> one.  One where HDMI works.  One where DSI works.  One which has
>> rotation.  This code is useful for all those phases.
> ...
>> They still fill different uses.  You can't cat a debugfs file from an
>> interrupt handler.  You can't call dump_regs() from userspace.  I'm
>> still actively using both.  I could see taking one out once
>> development on the driver calms down.
>
> Okay, maybe keep both with a comment stating why the debug is still
> there, and that it is scheduled to be removed once the driver is
> complete in mainline?

OK will do.



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