From: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
To: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: linux-input@vger.kernel.org, Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
Subject: Re: Retire gamecon?
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 13:28:45 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140812202845.GA21474@core.coreip.homeip.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1408122212340.15220@pobox.suse.cz>
On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 10:17:42PM +0200, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Aug 2014, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
>
> > I am wondering it it is time to retire gamecon support from the kernel.
>
> Absolutely no objections from me on this, but I guess Vojtech's opinion is
> much more relevant here, as he has actually *seen* this hardware (I
> guess) :)
>
> > It hasn't been working well ever since cpufreq became mainstream and it
> > becomes increasingly hard to find hardware and software that would run
> > on such old hardware.
>
> Makes me wonder though what makes gamecon so special among other drivers
> of such kind (such as JOYSTICK_DB9, to name one randomly picked example).
Sorry, I actually meant gameport, not gamecon. I obviously did not have enough
coffee when I sent out that message.
Thanks.
--
Dmitry
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-08-12 17:07 Retire gamecon? Dmitry Torokhov
2014-08-12 19:15 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2014-08-12 20:17 ` Jiri Kosina
2014-08-12 20:28 ` Dmitry Torokhov [this message]
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