Hi On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 11:44 AM, Floris <[email protected]> wrote: >> I posted an explanation on systemd-devel [1] this morning. Please note >> that this is a policy-issue created in user-space. The kernel-side >> cannot help you there. Furthermore, the kernel recommends using evdev >> instead of joydev and friends. Therefore, I cannot see what you expect >> from us. > > > just curious. If the joydev module is not recommended, why is it still > available and used?
Linux has strict backwards-compatibility rules. Therefore, we cannot remove joydev. However, we can decide to mark it obsolete, which means we will not extend it anymore. Furthermore, we cannot force anyone to stop using joydev, so we have to continue supporting it. Thanks David -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-input" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
