[systemd-devel] [HEADSUP] systemd-222 around the corner

[Bastien Nocera]

On Tue, 2015-07-07 at 17:16 +0200, David Herrmann wrote:
> Hi
> 
> On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 5:10 PM, Michael Biebl <mbiebl at gmail.com> 
> wrote:
> > 2015-07-06 19:54 GMT+02:00 David Herrmann <dh.herrmann at gmail.com>:
> > > Hi
> > > 
> > > We intend to release v222 tomorrow. If anyone has open issues 
> > > that
> > > need to be in that release, please speak up. Right now, the 
> > > release
> > > consists almost exclusively of bug-fixes, and we want to get 
> > > those
> > > into distributions.
> > 
> > Regarding the removal of the udev accelerometer, does anyone know,
> > which software was actually using this information?
> > I assume switching to iio-sensor-proxy means sourceful changes to
> > those programs, i.e. iio-sensor-proxy is not a drop-in replacement?
> 
> It was used by iio-sensor-proxy before version 1.0, but then finally
> included in iio-sensor-proxy for the 1.0 release. It might have some
> weird interactions with g-s-d. Bastien Nocera (CC) should know more.

GNOME 3.16 and earlier (going back a few years) used the old
accelerometer code in udev then systemd, but this only worked on a few
devices, notably the WeTab for which it was developed.

(it only supported accelerometers which exported X/Y/Z information
through the input sub-system)

Cheers