Re: [PATCH 00/13] Add HD44780 Character LCD support

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Mon, Feb 06, 2017 at 03:38:02PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> 	Hi all,
> 
> Character LCDs are currently typically driven from userspace, either
> directly through bit-banging, or via some kind of serial (UART/i2c)
> interface.
> 
> This patch series adds kernel support for character LCDs using an
> Hitachi HD44780 Character LCD Controller where its M6800 bus interface
> is connected to GPIOs.  It does so after extracting the character LCD
> core support from the existing Parallel port LCD/Keypad Panel driver
> into its own subdriver.
> 
>   - Patch 1 fixes a bug in the existing panel driver,
>   - Patches 2-8 perform clean ups and improvements to the panel driver,

I've applied the series up to here, I'm guessing the rest will take some
reworks based on review comments.

thanks,

greg k-h