[RFC PATCH] Initial libudev input-hotplug support

[Daniel Stone]

Hi,

On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 11:34:52AM -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote:
> One thing I was hoping was not to have the options input from the
> device configuration again. Having people migrate their setups to hal
> was not fun, and now they'll have to do it again to udev rules files.
> I have a couple patches that just need some polishing that add a
> InputClass xorg.conf option which allows matching against device
> properties and applying InputDevice options. That way the input
> configuration for hal, udev and any future input notifiers would be
> consolidated in the place where the server is supposed to be
> configured.
> 
> Does that sound like something useful? Then the config/udev backend
> would simply listen for input devices and pass them on to
> NewInputDeviceRequest where the Xorg could do what it wants.

I have nothing against that.  For keyboard layouts, ideally we'd have a
unified configuration between X/console/Wayland/et al (cf. cxkb), so
that's why the XKB configuration went in HAL: note that arbitrary input
options did not, originally, go in HAL.  So I don't know how we should
solve that one.

Cheers,
Daniel
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