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| author | Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> | 2007-02-10 01:29:11 -0500 |
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| committer | Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@insightbb.com> | 2007-02-10 01:29:11 -0500 |
| commit | ff141a03e1909db719c6afd3230c2f16a4141860 (patch) | |
| tree | 433135f6929ebf514c74f33dd5050fedf936118d | |
| parent | 31ea7ff0f880dc3f4ad94e85c1432d4b910c9fca (diff) | |
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 <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Acked-by: James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 15 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/input/tsdev.c | 4 |
2 files changed, 19 insertions, 0 deletions
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 <shemminger@osdl.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> + +--------------------------- diff --git a/drivers/input/tsdev.c b/drivers/input/tsdev.c index a730c461227f..0300dca8591d 100644 --- a/drivers/input/tsdev.c +++ b/drivers/input/tsdev.c @@ -151,6 +151,10 @@ static int tsdev_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file) int i = iminor(inode) - TSDEV_MINOR_BASE; struct tsdev_list *list; + printk(KERN_WARNING "tsdev (compaq touchscreen emulation) is scheduled " + "for removal.\nSee Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt " + "for details.\n"); + if (i >= TSDEV_MINORS || !tsdev_table[i & TSDEV_MINOR_MASK]) return -ENODEV; |