Fwd: libudev input hotplug in Debian and VirtualBox guest driver

[Michael Thayer]

Hello all,

I sent this to Julien Cristau originally, but as I got no response I'm  
sending it to the list in case someone else has an idea (or in case it  
just got caught in Julien's spam filter the first time).  Obviously it  
is something I would like to solve before the 1.8 release if at all  
possible.

Regards,

Michael

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Michael Thayer <michael.thayer at sun.com>
> Date: January 29, 2010 9:32:31 PM GMT+01:00
> To: jcristau at debian.org
> Subject: libudev input hotplug in Debian and VirtualBox guest driver
>
> Hello,
>
> I wanted to pop you a quick question about your libudev input  
> hotplug patch for the X server which is in current Debian testing  
> and the future Ubuntu 10.04.  I am in the process of trying to make  
> the VirtualBox Guest Additions mouse driver work with those systems  
> (as virtual systems obviously), and am blocked on the fact that  
> libudev input hotplug seems to require a corresponding input device  
> in the Linux kernel to work.  In the case of the VirtualBox guest  
> mouse driver there is no such device, as the driver talks to our  
> "VirtualBox" PCI device to get mouse information from the host.
>
> I was wondering if you had any suggestions as to how to make this  
> work, preferably without writing a kernel input device driver or  
> doing a major rework of the X.Org driver (I already did that when  
> the server moved to hal hotplug, and I'm not really dying to do it  
> again :) ).
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Regards,
>
> Michael

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