Re: [PATCH] Revert "staging: sm7xxfb: remove driver"

[Ben Hutchings]

On Thu, 2014-11-20 at 17:09 -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> Someone reported a bug in the function graph tracer for MIPS. As I'm
> still waiting on my USB serial for my Imagination MIPS board, I decided
> to bring my Lemote Yeeloong laptop back up to the latest kernel. This
> is where I noticed that the screen no longer displays anything.
> 
> I ran a bisect, which came across a staging commit that removed the
> sm7xxfb driver. When I reverted it on a v3.18-rc5 kernel and booted it
> on my Lemote laptop, the display worked again.
> 
> I then did a search for this commit and found that Debian reverted it
> too. Seems that there's still some Debian users of this laptop. (RMS?)
[...]

I reverted the removal for our 3.16 branch only, as that's going into
the Debian 8 'jessie' release.  It's not included in our 3.17 packages
and won't come back unless someone supports it upstream.  That gives any
interested developers another couple of years to rescue it if they want
it in Debian 9 'stretch'.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain. - Lily Tomlin

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