- input-schedule-removal-of-compaq-touchscreen.patch removed from -mm tree

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The patch titled
     input: schedule removal of compaq touchscreen emulation (tsdev.c)
has been removed from the -mm tree.  Its filename was
     input-schedule-removal-of-compaq-touchscreen.patch

This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree

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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
@@ -201,6 +201,20 @@ Who:	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@xxxxxxx>
 
 ---------------------------
 
+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>
+
+---------------------------
+
 What:	i2c-isa
 When:	December 2006
 Why:	i2c-isa is a non-sense and doesn't fit in the device driver
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

origin.patch
fix-null-pointer-dereference-in-appledisplay-driver.patch
git-acpi.patch
git-input.patch
git-backlight.patch
git-backlight-sony-fix.patch

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