* Retire gamecon?
@ 2014-08-12 17:07 Dmitry Torokhov
2014-08-12 19:15 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2014-08-12 20:17 ` Jiri Kosina
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From: Dmitry Torokhov @ 2014-08-12 17:07 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-input; +Cc: Vojtech Pavlik, Jiri Kosina
Hi,
I am wondering it it is time to retire gamecon support from the kernel. 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.
Please scream if you believe it should stay in.
Thanks.
--
Dmitry
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* Re: Retire gamecon?
2014-08-12 17:07 Retire gamecon? Dmitry Torokhov
@ 2014-08-12 19:15 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2014-08-12 20:17 ` Jiri Kosina
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From: Vojtech Pavlik @ 2014-08-12 19:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Dmitry Torokhov; +Cc: linux-input, Jiri Kosina
On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 10:07:22AM -0700, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> I am wondering it it is time to retire gamecon support from the kernel. 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.
I assume you mean gameport? Although gamecon is perhape even more arcane.
>
> Please scream if you believe it should stay in.
>
> Thanks.
I won't scream for it.
I'll spend a moment of silence remebmering that piece of code and the twisted hardware it used to support.
--
Vojtech Pavlik
Director SUSE Labs
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* Re: Retire gamecon?
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
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From: Jiri Kosina @ 2014-08-12 20:17 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Dmitry Torokhov; +Cc: linux-input, Vojtech Pavlik
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).
--
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs
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* Re: Retire gamecon?
2014-08-12 20:17 ` Jiri Kosina
@ 2014-08-12 20:28 ` Dmitry Torokhov
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From: Dmitry Torokhov @ 2014-08-12 20:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Jiri Kosina; +Cc: linux-input, Vojtech Pavlik
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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