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

Dan Nicholson dbn.lists at gmail.com
Wed Mar 31 08:29:32 PDT 2010


On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 3:18 PM, Keith Packard <keithp at keithp.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 08:57:57 +1000, Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer at who-t.net> wrote:
>
>> I'm a bit torn between the two - evdev feels right but the server is
>> "better".
>
> Let's stick it in the server. That's the piece that needs to
> differentiate between hal and udev anyway.

But the major point of the InputClass work is that you no longer have
to differentiate between the config backend. The .conf snippet works
for hal or udev. Now you can just install your driver and .conf file
and not have to worrry about the server (so long as there's some
active config backend).

--
Dan


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