[ANNOUNCE] libevdev 1.6.901

[Peter Hutterer]

The first rc for libevdev 1.7 is now available.

One new set of APIS:
- libevdev_event_type_from_code_name
- libevdev_event_code_from_code_name

Previously, to look up a event code from a code name required providing
(sometimes guessing) the event type. As the kernel prefixes all codes in a
unique way anyway, this function makes things easier for the caller. Simply
supply e.g. "KEY_A" and you get the right key type and code, whichever you
need.

An internal change in behaviour as well. Previously any call to
libevdev_next_event() would read more events from the kernel where
available. This was a design decision from many years ago when we were
suffering from frequent SYN_DROPPED events. However, this caused a large
number of unnecessary read() calls. Many touch devices have multiple axis so
it's common to trigger 5-10 read() just to process a single event frame from
such a device.

The kernel only ever sends events on SYN_REPORT anyway, the new behaviour is
to only check for new events when we're handling a SYN_REPORT ourselves.
Short of customised test cases, this should not have any user-visible
effect.

I don't plan for another RC so please give this one a test quickly before
the final 1.7 release is out.

Peter Hutterer (7):
      include: sync event codes with kernel 4.20
      Replace ABS_MT_SLOT - 1 with the v4.20 ABS_RESERVED define
      include: sync event codes with kernel 5.0
      Don't read events unless required
      Add a code-based name lookup function
      include: sync event codes with kernel 5.1
      libevdev 1.7rc1

git tag: libevdev-1.6.901

https://www.freedesktop.org/software/libevdev/libevdev-1.6.901.tar.xz
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