On Sun, 2017-05-28 at 11:47 +0200, Michal Suchanek wrote: > On Tue, 9 May 2017 17:43:27 -0700 > Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Hi Michal, > > > > On Tue, May 09, 2017 at 09:14:18PM +0200, Michal Suchanek wrote: > > > There is nothing mac-specific about this driver. Non-mac hardware > > > with suboptimal built-in pointer devices exists. > > > > > > This makes it possible to use this emulation not only on x86 and > > > ppc > > > notebooks but also on arm and mips. > > > > I'd rather we did not promote from drivers/macintosh to other > > platforms, but rather removed it. The same functionality can be > > done > > from userspace. > > What is the status of this? > > Do you reply to every patch to drivers/input that is not the the core > infrastructure that you would rather drop the driver because it can > be > done is in userspace? > > It sure can be done. Remove everything but the bus drivers and uinput > from drivers/input and the rest can be done in userspace. > > The question is who does it? > > Are you saying that you will implement the userspace equivalent? > > If not then please do your job as maintainer and accept trivial > patches > for perfectly working drivers we have now. > > If you want to move drivers/input into userspace I am not against it > but I am not willing to do that for you either. I'd advise you to take it down a notch. We don't go yelling at each other on this mailing-list. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-input" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
