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authorEric Miao <eric.y.miao@gmail.com>2010-02-08 08:10:05 +0100
committerDmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>2010-02-11 07:58:03 +0100
commit74e7e725e4766a2045708d274d4d07cd4fae8adc (patch)
treec1c491f93cc04f059c8afe59f2cb4ed5928a5b0d
parentInput: gpio-keys - add support for disabling gpios through sysfs (diff)
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Input: mark {corgi,spitz,tosa}kbd drivers deprecated
Provided that now keyboards on these devices are fully supported by generic GPIO based matrix keypad driver, mark these hardcoded and difficult to maintain drivers as deprecated. Signed-off-by: Eric Miao <eric.y.miao@gmail.com> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
-rw-r--r--Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt11
-rw-r--r--drivers/input/keyboard/Kconfig18
2 files changed, 23 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
index 0a46833c1b76..f8dc4d92e114 100644
--- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
+++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
@@ -542,3 +542,14 @@ Why: Duplicate functionality with the gspca_zc3xx driver, zc0301 only
sensors) wich are also supported by the gspca_zc3xx driver
(which supports 53 USB-ID's in total)
Who: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
+
+----------------------------
+
+What: corgikbd, spitzkbd, tosakbd driver
+When: 2.6.35
+Files: drivers/input/keyboard/{corgi,spitz,tosa}kbd.c
+Why: We now have a generic GPIO based matrix keyboard driver that
+ are fully capable of handling all the keys on these devices.
+ The original drivers manipulate the GPIO registers directly
+ and so are difficult to maintain.
+Who: Eric Miao <eric.y.miao@gmail.com>
diff --git a/drivers/input/keyboard/Kconfig b/drivers/input/keyboard/Kconfig
index 616a3916d187..1ad9435d30aa 100644
--- a/drivers/input/keyboard/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/input/keyboard/Kconfig
@@ -144,13 +144,15 @@ config KEYBOARD_BFIN
module will be called bf54x-keys.
config KEYBOARD_CORGI
- tristate "Corgi keyboard"
+ tristate "Corgi keyboard (deprecated)"
depends on PXA_SHARPSL
- default y
help
Say Y here to enable the keyboard on the Sharp Zaurus SL-C7xx
series of PDAs.
+ This driver is now deprecated, use generic GPIO based matrix
+ keyboard driver instead.
+
To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
module will be called corgikbd.
@@ -338,13 +340,15 @@ config KEYBOARD_PXA930_ROTARY
module will be called pxa930_rotary.
config KEYBOARD_SPITZ
- tristate "Spitz keyboard"
+ tristate "Spitz keyboard (deprecated)"
depends on PXA_SHARPSL
- default y
help
Say Y here to enable the keyboard on the Sharp Zaurus SL-C1000,
SL-C3000 and Sl-C3100 series of PDAs.
+ This driver is now deprecated, use generic GPIO based matrix
+ keyboard driver instead.
+
To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
module will be called spitzkbd.
@@ -411,12 +415,14 @@ config KEYBOARD_TWL4030
module will be called twl4030_keypad.
config KEYBOARD_TOSA
- tristate "Tosa keyboard"
+ tristate "Tosa keyboard (deprecated)"
depends on MACH_TOSA
- default y
help
Say Y here to enable the keyboard on the Sharp Zaurus SL-6000x (Tosa)
+ This driver is now deprecated, use generic GPIO based matrix
+ keyboard driver instead.
+
To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
module will be called tosakbd.