From: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2013 01:32:34 +0000 (-0300)
Subject: [media] lirc_bt829: Note in TODO why it can't be a normal PCI driver yet
X-Git-Tag: firefly_0821_release~176^2~3573^2~1285
X-Git-Url: http://demsky.eecs.uci.edu/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=cfd66ab72927dd14045c3650a01b7d69c37ac6fb;p=firefly-linux-kernel-4.4.55.git

[media] lirc_bt829: Note in TODO why it can't be a normal PCI driver yet

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <m.chehab@samsung.com>
---

diff --git a/drivers/staging/media/lirc/TODO b/drivers/staging/media/lirc/TODO
index b6cb593f55c6..cbea5d84fed3 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/media/lirc/TODO
+++ b/drivers/staging/media/lirc/TODO
@@ -2,6 +2,11 @@
   (see drivers/media/IR/mceusb.c vs. lirc_mceusb.c in lirc cvs for an
   example of a previously completed port).
 
+- lirc_bt829 uses registers on a Mach64 VT, which has a separate kernel
+  framebuffer driver (atyfb) and userland X driver (mach64).  It can't
+  simply be converted to a normal PCI driver, but ideally it should be
+  coordinated with the other drivers.
+
 Please send patches to:
 Jarod Wilson <jarod@wilsonet.com>
 Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>