[PATCH] If neither HAL nor udev backends are enabled, warn the user

[Mark Kettenis]

> Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2013 08:17:26 +1000
> From: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer at who-t.net>
> 
> On Fri, Feb 01, 2013 at 11:09:41AM +0100, Mark Kettenis wrote:
> > > Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2013 09:20:38 +1000
> > > From: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer at who-t.net>
> > > 
> > > If both are missing,  input device hotplugging will not work out of the box.
> > > While we still have a DBus-API or the user may want to set AAD off all the
> > > time, the most likely source of this is misconfiguration (i.e. lack of the
> > > udev/hal devel packages).
> > > 
> > > Message printed last to make it more obvious to the user.
> > 
> > But the check is pretty much Linux-specific.  On OpenBSD you'll get
> > (basic) input device hotplug capability through wscons (which is
> > always available).
> 
> is this actual X hotplugging support or just the kernel multiplexing,
> similar to /dev/input/mice?

Probably more like the latter.  Still printng such a warning on
OpenBSD (or anything else hat isn't Linux?) seems inappropriate and is
likely to confuse people.

Cheers,

Mark