Ping Cheng <pinglinux@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Tuesday, February 26, 2013, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: >> The driver looks quite reasonable, however that would be the 4th Wacom >> driver in the tree... I wonder if it is time to split out transport >> parts from core wacom functionality so that it can be shared by USB, I2C >> and serio devices. I agree, although I'm not sure how much common code there would actually be between these devices. However: > As for Julian's patch, serial models are more than 10 years old. Last > serial devices (Intuos2 series) were released in 2001. We stopped > producing serial devices in 2004 (Intuos3 released then). Whether we > should add EOL models to upstream is beyond my decision. But, my team > won't have resources to maintain this driver, that is for sure. This is the reason I wrote the driver in the first place -- the existing Wacom driver developers dropped support for serial tablets, which some people still use (I regularly get email about my driver from users). I am only asking to bring this into the mainline because I get asked about it regularly -- most signicantly, the device needs a serio ID allocated for it so that users don't have to play whack-a-mole with the IDs being allocated in the kernel. I'll take a look at what could be shared between the drivers this weekend. Cheers, -- Julian Squires
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