linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] HID: roccat: Fixed resubmit: Deprecating most Roccat sysfs attributes

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Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1510211155170.21100@pobox.suse.cz>
Date:	Wed, 21 Oct 2015 11:55:42 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Jiri Kosina <jikos@...nel.org>
To:	Stefan Achatz <erazor_de@...rs.sourceforge.net>
cc:	linux-api@...r.kernel.org, linux-input@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] HID: roccat: Fixed resubmit: Deprecating most Roccat
 sysfs attributes

On Sat, 17 Oct 2015, Stefan Achatz wrote:

> Deprecates all Roccat sysfs attributes except the ones for the old Kone by moving
> abi descriptions from testing to obsolete.
> For most devices everything can be done using the hidraw ioctls HIDIOCGFEATURE
> and HIDIOCSFEATURE, so I would suggest future removal of device specific drivers.
> The userspace tools don't use these attributes for a year now.
> The first Kone is not fully HID-compliant and will still need a module.

Ok, I am queuing this in for-4.4/roccat-sysfs-deprecation, let's see how 
this goes.

Thanks,

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs

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