[PATCH libinput 0/3] Per-context log handlers

Peter Hutterer peter.hutterer at who-t.net
Thu Jun 12 19:48:30 PDT 2014


This work was motivated by libevdev, which too started out with a global log                                                           
handler, and that's biting us now. libevdev is lower-level than libinput, so                                                           
there's a higher chance of two unrelated bits loading libevdev into the same                                                           
process. Nonetheless, having a global log handler in a library makes me a                                                              
bit nervous now.                                                                                                                       
                                                                                                                                       
This patchset changes over to a per-context log handler and that breaks the                                                            
API in a couple of ways:                                                                                                               
* the libinput context is now passed into the log function                                                                             
* the user_data pointer was dropped, use the context's user data if needed                                                             
* the log handler/priority is now part of the libinput_interface and managed                                                           
  by the caller, not by libinput (hence all the libinput_set/get_log*                                                                  
  functions are gone)                                                                                                                  
* the udev context creation was split up so we can give the client a                                                                   
  context before calling a log function that uses that context. I've left                                                              
  the old function there for now for some backwards compatibility but tbh                                                              
  given that everything else changes I think we should just drop                                                                       
  libinput_udev_create_for_seat().                                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                       
Cheers,                                                                                                                                
  Peter   


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