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 Acked-by: James Simmons Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 14 ++++++++++++++ drivers/input/tsdev.c | 4 ++++ 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+) Index: linux/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt =================================================================== --- linux.orig/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt 2007-02-06 20:32:59.000000000 +0000 +++ linux/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt 2007-02-07 09:15:40.000000000 +0000 @@ -325,3 +325,17 @@ Why: Unmaintained for years, superceded Who: Jeff Garzik --------------------------- + +What: Compaq touchscreen device emulation +When: Oct 2007 +Files: drivers/input/tsdev.c +Why: The code says it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 + +--------------------------- Index: linux/drivers/input/tsdev.c =================================================================== --- linux.orig/drivers/input/tsdev.c 2007-01-18 00:52:44.000000000 +0000 +++ linux/drivers/input/tsdev.c 2007-02-07 09:32:15.000000000 +0000 @@ -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;