[PATCH v2 weston] input: Don't test keyboard/pointer/touch pointers

[Hardening]

Le 02/02/2015 22:24, Derek Foreman a écrit :
> Thanks for looking at this rather cumbersome patch! :)
> 
> On 02/02/15 01:40 PM, Bill Spitzak wrote:
>> Is there a reason it does not just clear the pointer when
>> keyboard_device_count is changed to zero? That would seem like a smaller
>> patch.
> 
> Pulled Jonas Ådahl in on the CC for that question...  I understand why
> weston_pointer isn't freed when released, but is there a need for the
> same behavior for weston_keyboard and weston_touch?
> 

I had a discussion on this on IRC, and the reason is that we wanna save
the last position of the pointer. I'm not sure it's a valid argument, as
the counter part is that the cleaning of pointer, keyboard and touch is
not done, or done partially. Not so nice for weston, a reference
implementation, the code should be straightforward and here it's not.

My opinion is that this last position should be stored in the seat, and
restored when a new pointer is bound to the seat.

I will propose patches on seat releasing, that appears to be hard if not
impossible to do safely right now.

Regards.

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