My old driver. Yes please kill it. Acked-By: James Simmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, Richard Purdie wrote: > 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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > 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 @@ -325,3 +325,17 @@ Why: Unmaintained for years, superceded 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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > --------------------------- > + > +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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > + > +--------------------------- > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
