[PATCH 1/6] use embedded input_local.h instead of system linux/input.h

[Matthew Garrett]

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