Re: [PATCH 13/13] auxdisplay: Add HD44780 Character LCD support

From: Andy Shevchenko
Date: Wed Feb 08 2017 - 12:21:57 EST


On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 3:41 PM, Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 2:38 PM, Andy Shevchenko
> <andy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Btw, have you any plans to make an order among spreaded LCD drivers in
>> kernel? Perhaps we may gather them under auxdisplay hood?
>
> I have no such plan. I just had a long-standing personal interest in hd44780.

I have one too regarding to I2C/SPI interfaced hardware.
If you remember it was an attempt for lcd-linux to be upstreamed,
which provides (besides i2c/spi bus drivers) those LCDs as tty
devices.
Also interesting feature to have.

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko