[xorg-bugzilla-noise] [Bug 366] please include updated wacom input driver

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------- Additional Comments From mharris at www.linux.org.uk  2004-08-29 22:47 -------
I agree with Kristian, that it is best to spend effort supporting out-of-tree
driver builds for things like this, especially when the driver gets frequent
updates and releases on a schedule faster than X.Org does.  We definitely
are moving in the direction of modularization over the long term, so this
makes sense if it is doable now, which it is.

>From the viewpoint of the older wacom driver in X.Org, if it doesn't work
at all, it should be disabled completely and removed from the tree.  If it
is included, it should be updated to something current, however it is too
late for driver updates for 6.8.0 at this point, so it will likely ship
as-is now, which is unfortunate, but this problem comes to us in the 11th
hour of the Xorg devel cycle, so there isn't likely much that can be
done until after 6.8.0.

>From the viewpoint of Red Hat/Fedora Core OS builds, Kristian has created
a linuxwacom rpm package which I believe is either in fedora devel now, or
destined to be there this week sometime.  I will be modifying our X.Org
rpms to disable the X.Org included wacom driver, as that makes the most
sense for our OS right now at this point in time.

I think this report should remain open in Xorg bugzilla however, until either:

1) The wacom driver is updated

or

2) AN official decision is made to remove the ancient driver and move to
   out of tree modular driver builds.


The latter solution has the benefit that the non-MIT licensed bits can be
included in the same rpm packaging (or deb, or whatever), and so will be
matched to the driver.

        
   
   
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