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@@ -325,3 +325,17 @@ Why: Unmaintained for years, superceded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