input driver maintainance changes

Peter Hutterer peter.hutterer at who-t.net
Mon Sep 19 21:00:44 PDT 2011


On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 08:13:05PM -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> On 09/19/11 19:46, Peter Hutterer wrote:
> >We've retired a few input drivers a while ago. The ones we still have left
> >are in a variety of different states. The big 4 are maintained and expected
> >to work (evdev, synaptics, mouse, keyboard) with the development version of
> >X. Joystick is maintained, and Sascha is usually able to get the driver
> >updated quickly.
> 
> The other one I mostly care about is vmmouse, which is also fairly well
> maintained by VMware folks.   (Presumably you're ignoring the drivers
> which aren't maintained in X.Org repos but which are also well maintained,
> namely Wacom & Virtualbox.)

sorry, forgot about vmmouse. vmmouse is not affected by this, it is actively
maintained. 

drivers outside of the X.Org repos are not affected by this since they run
on their own terms anyway.

Cheers,
  Peter


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