From ff141a03e1909db719c6afd3230c2f16a4141860 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Richard Purdie Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 01:29:11 -0500 Subject: Input: tsdev - schedule removal Compaq touchscreen emulation (drivers/input/tsdev.c) is 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 Acked-by: James Simmons Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov --- Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 15 +++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index fa844fd7bded..5d140dc0ea2b 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -312,3 +312,18 @@ Why: In kernel tree version of driver is unmaintained. Sk98lin driver replaced by the skge driver. Who: Stephen Hemminger +--------------------------- + +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 + +--------------------------- -- cgit v1.2.3