Re: [PATCH] Input: gtco - remove driver

[Jiri Kosina]

On Thu, 17 Dec 2020, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:

> > > Note that our HID support has greatly improved over the last 10 years,
> > > we may also consider reverting 6f8d9e26e7de ("hid-core.c: Adds all GTCO
> > > CalComp Digitizers and InterWrite School Products to blacklist") and see
> > > if GTCO devices actually work with normal HID drivers.
> > 
> > Sounds like a good plan to me. Perhaps you can do that in a series 
> > together, and stage that for 5.12?
> 
> Sorry, I already zapped the driver in 5.11.
> 
> Unfortunately I do not have this hardware, so while we could remove
> these devices from the blacklist we will have to do that blindly. Please
> let me know if you still want to do that.

We can also wait for the first person to potentially complain (if ever) 
about the driver going away -- that'd mean that the person does actually 
still have that hardware, and we could ask him to test with hid-generic.

Thanks,

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs