[PATCH evdev] When building against server 1.8, install 00-evdev.conf.

[Dan Nicholson]

On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 3:14 PM, Peter Hutterer
<peter.hutterer at who-t.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 07:14:10AM -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote:
>> On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 6:52 AM, Alan Coopersmith
>> <Alan.Coopersmith at sun.com> wrote:
>> > Peter Hutterer wrote:
>> >> +if XSERVER18
>> >> +confdir = $(sysconfdir)/xorg.conf.d
>> >> +conf_DATA = 00-evdev.conf
>> >> +endif
>> >
>> > Should it install when building against older X servers as well, so that
>> > upgrades work, or did we break ABI and require rebuilding input drivers
>> > when going from 1.7 to 1.8 anyway?
>>
>> NewInputDeviceRequest breaks ABI to add the InputAttributes parameter,
>> so I think we'll be OK.
>
> no driver except wacom uses this though, and even then it's a compile-time
> guard, not a configure-time guard. You could still run an older version of
> evdev, make clean && make install and you're done.
> Remember that no driver actually has _active_ support for hal or udev, it's
> all the same to them. Wacom has a little piece of code, but that's just a
> strcmp() for "hal" and "udev".
>
> The alternative to this patch is to move the 00-evdev.conf (or
> 10-evdev.conf) into the server and install it whenever udev is enabled.
> Would that work for you?

I think this patch in evdev is the right thing since it's a property
of this driver and not the server to go claiming device support. I
also think installing it only on xserver-1.8+ is right since there's
no xorg.conf.d/InputClass on previous servers and the driver built
against previous servers will not run against 1.8+ due to
ABI_XINPUT_VERSION bumps (maybe I'm wrong on the last point).

--
Dan