[PATCH] Remove xcalibrate and tslib support

[Daniel Stone]

On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 11:24:57AM -0700, Timothy Meade wrote:
> Hi. I'm again representing the interests of a diverse group of
> developers who would like to use X on small embedded devices with
> directly connected touchscreen controllers (TSC/ADC) with resistive
> touchscreens.
> 
> What other option is there for us if tslib is removed? On the other
> hand, Xcalibrate doesn't work and won't be missed and there are
> existing programs for xinput based calibration. If the best option is
> to add resitive (non linear) support to evdev that would certainly be
> acceptible, or if synaptics should be abstracted out into a more
> general input processing framework that would also be an option. But I
> cannot see the wisdom in removing a standalone driver like tslib when
> there is nothing to replace it.

I'm sure we'd happily accept patches to make evdev work on non-linear
touchscreens.  It works with linear touchscreens today to the extent
that the Nokia N900 shipped with it last year, and has been fine ever
since.

Cheers,
Daniel
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