libinput without udev

[Peter Hutterer]

On Sun, Dec 07, 2014 at 06:31:32PM +0000, almindor at gmail.com wrote:
> I am currently looking into porting libinput for freebsd by making mtdev
> optional and abstracting epoll so it can be nicely replaced with kqueue.
 
one question regarding mtdev: it has no dependencies outside of
linux/input.h which you need for evdev anyway in libinput. so wouldn't it be
easier to ship mtdev rather than patching around it?

> Having a basic abstraction on top of the udev functionality would be
> useful for me too since i could replace it with devd. 

compiling out libudev in its current form is a no-go, it needs more work
than that. udev is now a lot deeper integrated than just in the public API.
look at evdev.c to see how we're using the udev_device there. specifically,
we use it to avoid race conditions when devices disappear and re-appear with
the same device node.

that said, while it's fairly deeply integrated we only use a handful of
calls. so you could figure out either how to do a fake libudev that wraps
those few calls on BSD or a simple and clean abstraction within libinput
that you can wrap it some other way. I'm obviously in favour of the
former :)

Cheers,
   Peter


> On Sun Dec 07 2014 11:12:02 GMT-0700 (MST), Thiago Macieira wrote:
> > On Saturday 06 December 2014 23:33:13 Michael Forney wrote:
> > > Currently, libinput is the only system component I would like to use
> > > that has a hard libudev dependency, so unless libinput would consider
> > > making this optional, I'll have to figure out something else.
> > 
> > Do you mind my asking why you want this? Is it because you have a different 
> > component that does the same job as udev? Or you're trying to make a very 
> > constrained device (RAM and Flash) and you need to make room?
> > 
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