[PATCH 1/6] use embedded input_local.h instead of system linux/input.h
Matthew Garrett
mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org
Sun Nov 2 16:54:50 PST 2008
On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 01:50:39AM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
> 2008/11/3 Matthew Garrett <mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org>:
> > But can be handled by the distribution, rather than distributions
> > needing to remember to recompile hal every time they update the kernel.
> > That kind of tight binding is a pain to deal with.
>
> That still doesn't make sense to me.
> Now the distribution has to remember to update the local copy and
> recompile hal whereas they simply have to recompile on a kernel
> upgrade.
No, hal upstream updates whenever the kernel gets updated (in order to
support the new functionality of the kernel) and then downstream
distributions pick it up automatically. That way only one set of people
need to care about the kernel/hal coupling, rather than us having a
myriad collection of bugs where the same version of hal has different
functionality depending on the kernel it was compiled against.
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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org
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