Changes to XInput Proto Number of Events Cause Xlib WireToEvent Vector Mismatch

[Keith Packard]

On Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:45:39 +1000, Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer at who-t.net> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 04:42:59PM -0500, Nathan Kidd wrote:

> Attached is an attempt of a fix to libXext. There's not a lot of
> wriggle-room, the APIs are quite restrictive and we can't pass a great deal
> of information around. Additionally, the library has no way of knowing how
> many events a given extension has, it's pure guesswork (or compiled into the
> library).

Why can't the library know? Presumably it needs to support all of these
extension versions, or it won't actually work at all (and should fail to
initialize itself).

Is it that the extension version isn't known at this point?

-- 
keith.packard at intel.com
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