From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Julian Squires Subject: Re: wacom serial tablet support Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2013 09:19:04 -0500 Message-ID: <877glri4o7.fsf@sliver.cipht.net> References: <878v6axv7t.fsf@sliver.cipht.net> <20130227052335.GA24420@core.coreip.homeip.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Return-path: Received: from mail-ie0-f178.google.com ([209.85.223.178]:51306 "EHLO mail-ie0-f178.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750778Ab3CAOTO (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Mar 2013 09:19:14 -0500 Received: by mail-ie0-f178.google.com with SMTP id c13so3633261ieb.9 for ; Fri, 01 Mar 2013 06:19:14 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: (Ping Cheng's message of "Thu, 28 Feb 2013 18:02:12 -0800") Sender: linux-input-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-input@vger.kernel.org To: Ping Cheng Cc: Dmitry Torokhov , Chris Bagwell , Jason Gerecke , Linux Input --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Ping Cheng writes: > On Tuesday, February 26, 2013, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: >> The driver looks quite reasonable, however that would be the 4th Wacom >> driver in the tree... I wonder if it is time to split out transport >> parts from core wacom functionality so that it can be shared by USB, I2C >> and serio devices. I agree, although I'm not sure how much common code there would actually be between these devices. However: > As for Julian's patch, serial models are more than 10 years old. Last > serial devices (Intuos2 series) were released in 2001. We stopped > producing serial devices in 2004 (Intuos3 released then). Whether we > should add EOL models to upstream is beyond my decision. But, my team > won't have resources to maintain this driver, that is for sure. This is the reason I wrote the driver in the first place -- the existing Wacom driver developers dropped support for serial tablets, which some people still use (I regularly get email about my driver from users). I am only asking to bring this into the mainline because I get asked about it regularly -- most signicantly, the device needs a serio ID allocated for it so that users don't have to play whack-a-mole with the IDs being allocated in the kernel. I'll take a look at what could be shared between the drivers this weekend. Cheers, =2D-=20 Julian Squires --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlEwuNgACgkQNlfN+A/UCSywCgCgikWytaS0xEJOTcJscWHURJEz an0AoN9kM9K1a2fSxztXRUpe2v+TMt/q =du2v -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--