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SubjectRe: [PATCH] input: Schedule removal of compaq touchscreen emulation (tsdev.c)

My old driver. Yes please kill it.

Acked-By: James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org>

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 <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 @@ -325,3 +325,17 @@ Why: Unmaintained for years, superceded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>
> +
> +---------------------------
>
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