[Xorg] XInput Hotplug Additions
Daniel Stone
daniel at freedesktop.org
Mon Aug 2 20:46:57 PDT 2004
On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 08:41:29PM -0700, Keith Packard wrote:
> Yeah, I don't see any reason to continue to support user-level device
> drivers when few (any?) systems need them any more. If you want hot-plug,
> then you get to create a reasonable input system. For really broken
> environments, a user-level process could open the device and submit
> standard format events through some back-channel.
I think the current horrific mess of os-support, random crap strewn
through imake, and common/ (so-called 'common') is a testament to why we
should force as much stuff over to the underlying system as possible.
--
Daniel Stone <daniel at freedesktop.org>
freedesktop.org: powering your desktop http://www.freedesktop.org
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