[PATCH] config: only match sane devices in 10-evdev.conf

[Peter Hutterer]

On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 11:02:46PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:
> On Wed, Apr  7, 2010 at 11:49:35 -0700, Keith Packard wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 7 Apr 2010 13:24:38 +1000, Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer at who-t.net> wrote:
> > 
> > > Having a generic catchall also adds devices like accelerometers. These
> > > devices make X unusable, hence restrict matching to "known sane" devices
> > > like pointers, touchpads, keyboards, tablets and touchscreens.
> > 
> > Should we install a config file for synaptics too? Note that due to how
> > config file search works, any existing xorg.conf.d in /etc/X11 will
> > override *all* of the config files we put in
> > ${prefix}/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d, so we should be able to put more than one
> > file and have things work.
> > 
> If the server installs a config file for synaptics, and I don't install
> the synaptics driver, then my touchpad doesn't work, instead of working
> with evdev just fine.  I'd rather have synaptics (and vmmouse, and
> wacom, and what have you) install its own config snippet.

I agree with Julien here, the special-case drivers are better off to keep
their own snippets around. I'll add that once we have Dan's changes in to
export the location from the pkgconfig file.

Cheers,
  Peter