How to migrate the X server?

[Peter Hutterer]

On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 08:21:52AM -0500, Dan Nicholson wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 11:13 PM, Peter
> Hutterer<peter.hutterer at who-t.net> wrote:
> > I have poked at libudev a bit today in a weak effort to look what's required
> > to switch the X server over. I'd be happy if someone else takes over at
> > this, but right now I don't see this happening for 1.7 anyway. Especially
> > since the udev code I just wrote required me to put a big "i know this API
> > will change" define in.
> 
> Peter,
> 
> I've been working on some patches to add an InputClass configuration
> in the anticipation that when udev hotplugging shows up to the server
> so we don't have to attempt to migrate people to a udev configuration.
> Would you consider having a look at the patches before we add yet
> another input device configuration system?

sure, just send them my way. Are we talking about similar patches you did
ages ago to get xorg.conf and HAL together?

I'm still in the 'gathering info' stage to scope out what's actually needed.

Cheers,
  Peter