[ANNOUNCE] xorg-server 1.7.99.901

[Peter Hutterer]

On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 10:34:52AM -0800, Dan Nicholson wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 10:30 AM, Julien Cristau <jcristau at debian.org> wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 13:05:07 -0500, Thomas Jaeger wrote:
> >
> >> In order to be able to support "hot-plugging" for serial wacom tablet
> >> pcs, we'll need one of the attached patches -- I don't particularly care
> >> which one.  See the discussion at
> >>
> >> http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel/2010-January/004596.html
> >>
> > Ack from me, with a preference for the first one (add a match on the tty
> > subsystem).
> 
> I think it would be better to use the second. We don't need to narrow
> down the subsystem since the devices are already filtered to those
> with ID_INPUT. That gives more flexibility than whitelisting
> subsystems.

I agree, I think ID_INPUT should be enough. The filter for subsystem was
present in the first patches before the ID_INPUT check was added so I'd
consider it a leftover deprecated now anyway.

Cheers,
  Peter