[Xorg] Keyboard drivers: kbd vs. keyboard

[Kristian Høgsberg]

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.

Kristian

Egbert Eich wrote:
> The reason for keeping this driver around was I think that the 
> other driver doesn't support all OSes X supports. 
> Before we make such a change we need to make sure that we don't
> deprive certain people of their keyboard.
> 
> Egbert.
> 
> 
> Kristian Høgsberg writes:
>  > Hi,
>  > 
>  > I was looking at the keyboard driver situation, and I was wondering why 
>  > we keep the legacy, built-in keyboard driver around,
>  > 
>  > I made a patch[1] to remove the "keyboard" driver, which among other 
>  > things removes os specific xf86KbdLnx.c and others from xfree86/common, 
>  > removes all sorts special cases around initialization, and in general 
>  > removes much keyboard logic from xfree86/common and 4300 lines in total.
>  > 
>  > I chose to rename the modular "kbd" driver to "keyboard" so old config 
>  > files should continue to work.
>  > 
>  > I think this is worthwhile, but what are the cons?  It's such a 
>  > low-hanging fruit; there must be a good reason the legacy driver is 
>  > still used.
>  > 
>  > Kristian
>  > 
>  > [1] http://freedesktop.org/~krh/remove-legacy-keyboard.patch
>  > 
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