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2007-02-06 11:36:31.000000000 +0000 @@ -325,3 +325,17 @@ Why: Unmaintained for years, superceded Who: Jeff Garzik 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/
