Re: Backported features from xserver 1.8

[Timo Aaltonen <timo.aaltonen@aalto.fi>]

On Sun, 28 Mar 2010, Julien Cristau wrote:

> Hi Timo,
>
> There's one concern I expressed on IRC, which is that I don't much like
> shipping something as 1.7 which doesn't have the same ABI as 1.7
> upstream.  (And shipping with 1.8 is too late for lucid and quite a big
> jump even for squeeze at this point.)
>
> Removing the need for an extra parameter in NewInputDeviceRequest is
> probably not possible with the inputclass/inputattributes changes, so
> one option if we want to do the backport anyway would be to keep the old
> NIDR as-is, and use NIDR18 when we need to pass InputAttributes.
> Ideally wacom could keep using the old NIDR, since the inputclass
> matching could be done for the first device, hotplugged through
> config/udev, and the additional ones wouldn't need the InputAttributes.
> but I haven't looked at the code at all, so maybe not.  Does this make
> sense?  Any chance you could test it?

I can test it, though since wacom is the only driver using NIDR this feels 
a bit excessive :) I'll check the code before testing, it should reveal if 
it makes wacom less functional or not. (too tired to read it now)

> Maybe also consider including Dan's patch to use the device name without
> double quotes.

Can't find that one, and it's not merged in master yet. Searched the 
xorg-devel archives too..


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Timo Aaltonen
Systems Specialist
IT Services, Aalto University School of Science and Technology