[Bug 1910] New: wacom: horrifically out of sync from upstream

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1910        
   
           Summary: wacom: horrifically out of sync from upstream
           Product: xorg
           Version: CVS_head
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: critical
          Priority: P2
         Component: Input/other
        AssignedTo: xorg-bugzilla-noise at freedesktop.org
        ReportedBy: daniel at freedesktop.org


(Using sev:critical within the context of the Wacom driver, not within the
context of the entire release.)

The current Wacom driver in the tree is, to put it bluntly, broken to hell.  It
does not support most tablets made within the last three or four years -- if it
recognises them, it declares them to be 0x0, or just does random things with
input, or whatever.

This driver is upstream maintained at linuxwacom.sf.net, and they have a new
driver that has been present in both Debian and Ubuntu for quite some time now.
 We have had zero bug reports about tablets since incorporating it, and about
seven 'doesn't work whatsoever' reports before doing it.

Since there is no parallel development going on and it has been well-tested by
most distributions (I believe Red Hat incorporates it also), please, please,
incorporate it for the next release, or drop the Wacom driver from the tree.        
   
   
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