Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 6 Feb 2007 20:52:02 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] input: Schedule removal of compaq touchscreen emulation (tsdev.c) |
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On Tue, 06 Feb 2007 16:42:39 +0000 Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> wrote:
> --------------------------- > + > +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>
I think it best to add a printk to the driver's initialisation routine warning any remaining users that it is going away. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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