[PATCH 01/17] Revert "Attempt to add the 'mouse' driver in more situations."

Daniel Stone daniel at fooishbar.org
Mon Aug 8 02:24:51 PDT 2011


On Mon, Aug 08, 2011 at 04:20:57PM +1000, Peter Hutterer wrote:
> This reverts commit 43d9edd31e31b33b9da4a50d8ab05004881c8d5a.
> 
> This commit was introduced in the 1.2 cycle when hotplugging was less than
> ideal (i.e. it didn't exist). From the commit message:
> 
>     Always add a mouse driver instance configured to send core events, unless
>     a core pointer already exists using either the mouse or void drivers.  This
>     handles the laptop case where the config file only specifies, say,
>     synaptics, which causes the touchpad to work but not the pointing stick.
>     We don't double-instantiate the mouse driver to avoid the mouse moving twice
>     as fast, and we skip this logic when the user asked for a void core pointer
>     since that probably means they want to run with no pointer at all.
> 
> To get this case above, a user would need to disable hotplugging _and_ have a
> xorg.conf that only references one device. This is possible, but not a use-case
> we should worry about too much now.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer at who-t.net>

Reviewed-by: Daniel Stone <daniel at fooishbar.org>


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