[Xorg] Input device hotplug
Egbert Eich
eich at pdx.freedesktop.org
Mon Jul 5 04:30:31 PDT 2004
Keith Packard writes:
>
> Around 15 o'clock on Jul 4, Egbert Eich wrote:
>
> > What I worry about a little bit is an extra support burdeon as we have
> > to run start three processes to get X up and running. If due to some
> > misconfiguration or misinstallation one of them isn't working we have
> > a support nightmare.
>
> That's a very good point; we often forget that system configuration
> complexity leads directly to system mis-configuration. The system should
> either be impossible to mis-configure, or should be designed to
> self-correct in the face of error. The first is clearly better.
>
True. What I'm also concerned about are crashes in the separate components
that happen in states of the system which rarely occur.
With X consisting of several subsystems the bug reports we receive from
users may be even less conclusive. (And we may have 3 log files instead of
one).
Egbert.
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