[PATCH evdev] conf: rename to 65-evdev.conf

Peter Hutterer peter.hutterer at who-t.net
Fri May 20 01:47:45 UTC 2016


On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 05:37:59PM +0200, Stefan Dirsch wrote:
> Bump up evdev driver to 65, so it get's perferred over libipnut,
> which was dropped down to 60. Reason is, that evdev driver is more
> of an additional driver, which likely won't be installed by default
> on a system any longer. But if it is installed it should also be
> used, i.e. preferred over libinput.
> 
> Similar to what was done for wacom configuration file.
> 
> https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=979554
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch at suse.de>

nope, can't do this yet. evdev is still more flexible than libinput and
handles a couple of devices that libinput doesn't handle. so we have to
assume that for the time being evdev will be installed on most machines.

Cheers,
   Peter



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