Re: [PATCH] input: Schedule removal of compaq touchscreen emulation(tsdev.c)

[Andrew Morton]

On Tue, 06 Feb 2007 16:42:39 +0000 Richard Purdie <rpurdie@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>  ---------------------------
> +
> +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>

I think it best to add a printk to the driver's initialisation routine warning
any remaining users that it is going away.
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