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From: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
To: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Linux-Input <linux-input@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
Subject: [PATCH] input: Schedule removal of compaq touchscreen emulation (tsdev.c)
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2007 16:42:39 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1170780159.5826.71.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
Schedule removal of Compaq touchscreen emulation (drivers/input/tsdev.c)
Its old, was obsolete when it was written by the authors own admission
and much better userspace solutions like tslib now exist. The name is
also confusing.
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 14 ++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)
Index: linux/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt 2007-02-06 09:40:43.000000000 +0000
+++ linux/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt 2007-02-06 11:36:31.000000000 +0000
@@ -325,3 +325,17 @@ Why: Unmaintained for years, superceded
Who: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
---------------------------
+
+What: Compaq touchscreen device emulation
+When: Oct 2007
+Files: drivers/input/tsdev.c
+Why: The code says it was obsolete when it was written in 2001.
+ tslib is a userspace library which does anything tsdev can do and
+ much more besides in userspace where this code belongs. There is no
+ longer any need for tsdev and applications should have converted to
+ use tslib by now.
+ The name "tsdev" is also extremely confusing and lots of people have
+ it loaded when they don't need/use it.
+Who: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
+
+---------------------------
next reply other threads:[~2007-02-06 16:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-06 16:42 Richard Purdie [this message]
2007-02-06 19:33 ` James Simmons
2007-02-07 4:52 ` Andrew Morton
2007-02-07 10:23 ` Richard Purdie
2007-02-07 20:16 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
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