[PATCH xorg-gtest 0/5] Build system improvements and uTouch-Evemu support

[Peter Hutterer]

On Mon, Mar 05, 2012 at 11:47:37AM -0800, Chase Douglas wrote:
> The first three changes are improvements to the build system. The fourth is a
> simple .gitignore update. The fifth is the addition of uTouch-Evemu device
> recording playback support.
> 
> Unfortunately, the X.org server does not have a suitable mechanism for
> generating test input events for all events. The XTest extension relies on a
> static pointer and keyboard combination, does not propagate events through the
> normal event path in the server, and only supports X core and XInput 1.x events.
> I wanted to create a new input module that would instantiate new devices on
> demand and send events using the xf86XInput API, but the input device
> architecture of the server makes this impossible without a new input module API.
> 
> However, we can get around all this on Linux by using the uinput evdev
> subsystem. Any physical device can be recorded and played back as a virtual
> device using uinput. uTouch-Evemu is a thin wrapper around uinput that handles
> recording to and playing back from files. We use this for utouch-frame,
> utouch-grail, and utouch-geis for integration testing. Currently, each has its
> own Evemu testing wrapper, but this will help simplify things.
> 
> You can find more information on evemu here:
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Multitouch/Testing/uTouchEvEmu.
> 
> Note that uTouch-Evemu is GPLv3 and cannot be relicensed. Support is being added
> optionally, and if you don't specify --with-evemu or --without-evemu it should
> automatically pick it up if it's already installed. Until we have better X.org
> input test frameworks, I believe this is a reasonable first step for testing.

Reviewed-by for 1-4 (minus the one comment), Acked-by for the evemu addition
(not enough brainspace for C++ right now)

Cheers,
  Peter