The patch titled
input: schedule removal of compaq touchscreen emulation (tsdev.c)
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
input-schedule-removal-of-compaq-touchscreen.patch
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Subject: input: schedule removal of compaq touchscreen emulation (tsdev.c)
From: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@xxxxxxxxx>
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 <rpurdie@xxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: James Simmons <jsimmons@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 14 ++++++++++++++
drivers/input/tsdev.c | 4 ++++
2 files changed, 18 insertions(+)
diff -puN Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt~input-schedule-removal-of-compaq-touchscreen Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
--- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt~input-schedule-removal-of-compaq-touchscreen
+++ a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
@@ -324,3 +324,17 @@ Why: OSS drivers with ALSA replacement
Who: Adrian Bunk <bunk@xxxxxxxxx>
---------------------------
+
+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@xxxxxxxxx>
+
+---------------------------
diff -puN drivers/input/tsdev.c~input-schedule-removal-of-compaq-touchscreen drivers/input/tsdev.c
--- a/drivers/input/tsdev.c~input-schedule-removal-of-compaq-touchscreen
+++ a/drivers/input/tsdev.c
@@ -151,6 +151,10 @@ static int tsdev_open(struct inode *inod
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;
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from rpurdie@xxxxxxxxx are
acpi-add-backlight-support-to-the-sony_acpi.patch
git-alsa.patch
input-schedule-removal-of-compaq-touchscreen.patch
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