[PATCH 07/11] xfree86: Add MatchOS InputClass entry for operating system matching

Julien Cristau jcristau at debian.org
Thu May 20 07:40:21 PDT 2010


On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 07:09:09 -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote:

> Allow InputClass sections to match against the running operating system
> to narrow the application of rules. An example where this could be used
> is to specify that the default input driver on Linux is evdev while it's
> mouse/kbd everywhere else.
> 
> The operating system name is the same as `uname -s`, and matching is
> case-insensitive.
> 
Does this have benefits over installing different files based on the
build OS?

Cheers,
Julien


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