[Xorg] XInput Hotplug Additions

[Kristian Høgsberg]

Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> Kristian Høgsberg wrote:
> 
>> The idea is that the arguments given to XAddInputDevice() corresponds 
>> to the options you can give in an xorg.conf InputDevice section, e.g.
>>
>>     Section "InputDevice"
>>             Identifier  "Mouse0"
>>             Driver      "mouse"
>>             Option      "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
>>             Option      "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
>>             Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
>>     EndSection
>>
>> could be configured at runtime from an X client as
>>
>>     XDeviceOption options[] = {
>>       { "Protocol", "IMPS/2" },
>>       { "Device", "/dev/input/mice" },
>>       { "ZAxisMapping", "4 5" },
>>     };
>>
>>     XAddInputDevice(dpy, "Mouse0", "mouse", options, 3);
> 
> 
> So this extension is only usable by the Xorg server and other X servers
> with their own configuration methods will not be able to use it?

No, that wasn't the intention.  The XAddInputDevice() API was clearly 
inspired by to xorg.conf file, but is was my hope that the 
device+driver+options would be general enough that it would work for 
other servers too.  If that is not the case, I would like to get 
feedback on how to change the API so several server implementations 
could be accomodated.

Even so, the available drivers and options will be server specific, and 
the client must know what server it is talking to and use options that 
work with the server in question.

As an alternative, the XAddInputDevice() and XRemoveInputDevice() 
requests could be moved to an Xorg speficic extension, e.g. Xorg-Hotplug.

Kristian