Who: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
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-
-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>
-
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What: corgi_ssp and corgi_ts driver
When: 2.6.35
Generally invoked by accident today.
Seen as doing more harm than good.
Who: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
+
+ ----------------------------
+
+ What: video4linux /dev/vtx teletext API support
+ When: 2.6.35
+ Files: drivers/media/video/saa5246a.c drivers/media/video/saa5249.c
+ include/linux/videotext.h
+ Why: The vtx device nodes have been superseded by vbi device nodes
+ for many years. No applications exist that use the vtx support.
+ Of the two i2c drivers that actually support this API the saa5249
+ has been impossible to use for a year now and no known hardware
+ that supports this device exists. The saa5246a is theoretically
+ supported by the old mxb boards, but it never actually worked.
+
+ In summary: there is no hardware that can use this API and there
+ are no applications actually implementing this API.
+
+ The vtx support still reserves minors 192-223 and we would really
+ like to reuse those for upcoming new functionality. In the unlikely
+ event that new hardware appears that wants to use the functionality
+ provided by the vtx API, then that functionality should be build
+ around the sliced VBI API instead.
+ Who: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>