[RFC XI 2.1 - xserver 7/9] Reorder AxisInfo elements

[Peter Hutterer]

On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 10:31:30AM -0500, Chase Douglas wrote:
> On 11/17/2010 06:42 PM, Peter Hutterer wrote:
> > fwiw, I don't really see a need to differ between major/minor ABI. It's just
> > a number and we have a fair way to go before we run out of integers. And not
> > having to remember which one was major/minor in the driver ifdefs is
> > helpful.
> 
> Except that a major bump causes all the input drivers to fail to load
> until they are rebuilt. If you just bump the minor number, we don't need
> to rebuild things. While it's not a huge deal, it is a pain when I try
> to provide packages in PPAs for people to test and develop with.
> 
> > so for all I care, we can bump the major number again, but I'd like to do
> > this not immediately, but rather when we know that we likely won't need
> > another bump this cycle.
> > Since the major motivation here is the MT work and the changes aren't
> > immediately needed for other stuff, I'd like to hold this back on the MT
> > branch and then cherry-pick over when we have a clearer picture. Does this
> > make sense?
> 
> That would be fine except I would like to push masked valuators into
> evdev. I can't do that without the extra helper functions. Since adding
> the helper functions is backwards compatible, why not just leave the
> major ABI as is and merge the change?

alrighty, makes sense. I'll merge the patch with a bump to the minor and
send it in the next pull.

Cheers,
  Peter
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