[PATCH libinput 3/3] Change the logging system to be per-context

[Peter Hutterer]

On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 09:24:03AM +0200, Jonas Ådahl wrote:
> > > The purpose of the struct was to provide an interface with the
> > > functionality that libinput would require to have to function without
> > > having to be root, and it doesn't feel logging function fits this
> > > purpose. It was already a set/get, wouldn't it fit better to just make
> > > them per context, while keeping the interface struct minimal?
> > 
> > yeah, fair enough. I arrived at this solution at a bit of a roundabout way
> > since I wanted to make the current udev_create work without changes and then
> > failed anyway. with the create_context function it's possible now to do the
> > following:
> > 
> >     li = libinput_udev_create_context();
> >     libinput_set_log_handler(li, ...);
> >     libinput_set_log_priority(li, ...);
> >     libinput_udev_set_set(li, seat);
> > 
> > That's what you're proposing, right?
> 
> Yes, something like that. We could also possibly do what I think we
> discussed a while ago and default to suspended, i.e. _create_for_seat(),
> _set_(), _enable(), but either way really. The problem with _set_seat()
> though I guess is that it makes it look like we can actually switch seat
> of a context, which I don't know if we should support.

well, we could do it as add/remove like in the path backend, I just don't
know if there's a use-case for that?

for the current code I'll just add a check, right now it just overwrites it
which is a bug.

other name suggestions: assign_seat() or bind_seat()

Cheers,
   Peter