On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 08:24:58AM +0100, Matthieu Herrb wrote: > On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 12:06:55PM +1000, Peter Hutterer wrote: > > > > * sorry, BSDs, Solaris, etc. start using evdev already. > > No please. Evdev is not one size fits all all, and the *BSD > developpers don't want to be forced to implement an evdev > compatibility layer and pay the price for that extra level on non > Linux systems. > > no one except linux kernel developers have control on the evdev > "standard" so without beeing deeply involved in the lklm process, it's > impossible to have any influence on the design before it's actually > committed and pushed out by Linus.
has anyone actually tried? let me rephrase this though: by not having evdev you're missing out on user-space components that rely on it, and those are only going to get more while maintenance of the non-evdev components will be reduced. If that's the price you're willing to pay then no problem. Cheers, Peter _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
