[Buildroot] building fbtft framebuffer drivers into buildroot.

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Dear Yann E. MORIN,

On Fri, 26 Dec 2014 15:51:28 +0100, Yann E. MORIN wrote:

> But the fact is that fbtft is only an additional modules with no impact
> on the core of the kernel; it requires "patching" the kernel just
> because it wants to add a Kconfig option and a Kbuild sub-directory.
> 
> So, it would better be built as an out-of-tree module, rather than be
> handled as a kernel extension. Hence the reason I said it would not play
> well "as-is" with Buildroot.

In this case, then yes, indeed, turning it into proper out-of-tree
modules would be nicer.

Thomas
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