[PATCH xf86-input-joystick] man: point out that the joystick module is not a joystick driver

Sascha Hlusiak saschahlusiak at arcor.de
Wed Oct 3 09:57:42 PDT 2012


Thanks, applied, and did some more man page tuning and fixing.

On Dienstag, 2. Oktober 2012 06:40:05 Peter Hutterer wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer at who-t.net>
> ---
>  man/joystick.man | 8 +++++++-
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/man/joystick.man b/man/joystick.man
> index 9f38ceb..274e4c5 100644
> --- a/man/joystick.man
> +++ b/man/joystick.man
> @@ -19,7 +19,13 @@ Snipped for xorg.conf.d(5):
> 
>  .SH DESCRIPTION
>  .B joystick
> -is an __xservername__ input driver for Joysticks. There are 3 backends
> available that are used in the following order, if support was found: +is
> an __xservername__ input driver for controlling the pointer with a
> +joystick device. It is
> +.B not a joystick driver for games,
> +the
> +.B evdev
> +driver will suffice for those in most cases.
> +There are 3 backends available that are used in the following order, if
> support was found:
> 
>  .nf
>  .B - Linux's evdev interface
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