evdev-1.2.0 / hal-0.5.10 combo broken?

[Daniel Stone]

On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 11:01:21PM -0200, pcpa at mandriva.com.br wrote:
>   I believe one the issues is the "forcing" on using evdev instead of
> "kbd" or "mouse".

Yes, it is being 'forced', as it were.  You say that as if it's a bad
thing.

>   Other issue is that there is no full integration with configuration
> from xorg.conf, and to make things worse, hal configuration code doesn't
> know about xorg.conf configuration code, and both do "its own thing"
> when starting the X Server, i.e. frequently 2 instances of the same
> module or 2 different modules handling the same device.

Can you please show me where this ever happens?  evdev was specifically
designed to avoid this, and I'd like to see some proof of it going
wrong.  I've seen it go badly wrong when Ubuntu merged a patch from some
derivative distro whose name I forget (maybe it was PepperPad) that
broke evdev, but that's it.

>   Hal config code also only knows about what hal queries return, and
> I believe there are only graphical "user friendly" configuration tools,
> i.e. chicken and egg problem :-) If only hal config code is used, and
> hal is misconfigured, things will not go very well...

No, that's completely and utterly wrong.  HAL cannot be configured with
any GUI tool that I know of, and only parses text files.  Oh well.

Cheers,
Daniel
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