[Xorg] Keyboard drivers: kbd vs. keyboard
Egbert Eich
eich at pdx.freedesktop.org
Tue Jul 6 06:53:07 PDT 2004
Kristian Høgsberg writes:
> Yeah, I suspected as much. But isn't that a chicken-and-egg problem? If
> the legacy driver continues to be supported, we'll never get the missing
> bits done for the new driver. I really think it's worthwhile, and it
> ties in nicely with the XInput cleanup/hotplug work.
>
> What about marking the legacy driver as deprecated (print a big warning
> if it is used) and encourage people to use the new driver. After a
> while, maybe the release after the next, we remove the legacy driver.
>
What you should do is to disable build by default and allow people
to enable it if they have to. This will be a gentle hint that OS
maintainers should take action.
It would be even better to declare it deprecated and set a date by
which it will go away, announce and discuss it on the mailing list
(here) and on the Wiki (should we have a developers announce?).
Unfortunately not every group that's interested in X is assembled
here (yet).
Cheers,
Egbert.
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