On Sun, Sep 04, 2011 at 10:44:21AM +0200, Colin Guthrie wrote: > 'Twas brillig, and Lennart Poettering at 17/07/11 02:33 did gyre and gimble: > > Add support for multi-seat-aware input device hotplugging. This > > implements the multi-seat scheme explained here: > > > > http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/multiseat > > > > This introduces a new X server switch "-seat" which allows configuration > > of the seat to enumerate hotplugging devices on. If specified the value > > of this parameter will also be exported as root window property Xorg_Seat. > > > > To properly support input hotplugging devices need to be tagged in udev > > according to the seat they are on. Untagged devices are assumed to be on > > the default seat "seat0". If no "-seat" parameter is passed only devices > > on "seat0" are used. This means that the new scheme is perfectly > > compatible with existing setups which have no tagged input devices. > > > > This also optimizes the udev code in away that is beneficial for systems > > that do not support new udev/systemd style multi-seat: the patch makes > > use of libudev functions to limit enumerating/monitoring of devices to > > actual input devices. This should speed up start-up and minimize > > wake-ups, since we will only enumerate/monitor the devices we are > > interested in instead of all devices on the machine and all events they > > generate. > > > > Finally, this also unifies the code paths for the udev "change" and > > "add" events, since these should be handled the same way in order to be > > robust to "udevadm trigger" calls, or lost netlink messages. This also > > simplifies the code. > > > > Note that the -seat switch takes a completely generic identifier, and > > that it has no effect on non-Linux systems. In fact, on other OSes a > > completely different identifier scheme for seats could be used but still > > be exposed with the Xorg_Seat and -seat. > > > > I tried to follow the coding style of the surrounding code blocks if > > there was any one could follow. > > I didn't see any feedback on this patch. Did anything more happen > regarding it? > > Does it need a bug opened?
it's in my -next branch which will be merged as soon as I get reviewed-by for the smooth scrolling patches here: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg-devel/2011-September/024861.html Cheers, Peter _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: [email protected]
