From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751523AbWLQAtG (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Dec 2006 19:49:06 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751521AbWLQAtG (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Dec 2006 19:49:06 -0500 Received: from tim.rpsys.net ([194.106.48.114]:46588 "EHLO tim.rpsys.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751528AbWLQAtF (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Dec 2006 19:49:05 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 1608 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Sat, 16 Dec 2006 19:49:04 EST Subject: Schedule tsdev.c for removal From: Richard Purdie To: Dmitry Torokhov Cc: linux-input@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz, LKML , James Simmons Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 00:21:17 +0000 Message-Id: <1166314878.5606.19.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Schedule drivers/input/tsdev.c for removal, nobody should be using this anymore. See the patch for details. Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 14 ++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+) Index: git/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt =================================================================== --- git.orig/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt 2006-12-16 21:44:40.000000000 +0000 +++ git/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt 2006-12-17 00:15:03.000000000 +0000 @@ -256,3 +256,17 @@ Why: Speedstep-centrino driver with ACPI Who: Venkatesh Pallipadi --------------------------- + +What: Compaq touchscreen device emulation +When: March 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 + +---------------------------