[PATCH libevdev 0/8] libevdev backwards-compatibility

[Peter Hutterer]

On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 04:14:48PM +1000, Peter Hutterer wrote:
> 
> libevdev fails to build or run on older kernels. This set of patches enables libevdev to build on
> RHEL6 and anything later (I suspect). the runtime behaviour changes depending on the kernel but is
> largely modelled on what makes sense.

I forgot: I attempted to make the tests work correctly depending on the
local kernel version but this lands us in ifdef hell. So at least for now
just let the tests fail on older kernels.

There's a bit of time-pressure on this, libevdev is now required by evdev
and it won't build on older kernels, preventing users from building the xorg
stack from git.

Cheers,
   Peter