From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dmitry Torokhov Subject: Re: Retire gamecon? Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 13:28:45 -0700 Message-ID: <20140812202845.GA21474@core.coreip.homeip.net> References: <20140812170722.GC5563@core.coreip.homeip.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mail-pa0-f46.google.com ([209.85.220.46]:46394 "EHLO mail-pa0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754734AbaHLU2s (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Aug 2014 16:28:48 -0400 Received: by mail-pa0-f46.google.com with SMTP id lj1so13525091pab.5 for ; Tue, 12 Aug 2014 13:28:48 -0700 (PDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-input-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-input@vger.kernel.org To: Jiri Kosina Cc: linux-input@vger.kernel.org, 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