[PATCH] If neither HAL nor udev backends are enabled, warn the user

[Peter Hutterer]

On Fri, Feb 01, 2013 at 11:09:41AM +0100, Mark Kettenis wrote:
> > Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2013 09:20:38 +1000
> > From: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer at who-t.net>
> > 
> > If both are missing,  input device hotplugging will not work out of the box.
> > While we still have a DBus-API or the user may want to set AAD off all the
> > time, the most likely source of this is misconfiguration (i.e. lack of the
> > udev/hal devel packages).
> > 
> > Message printed last to make it more obvious to the user.
> 
> But the check is pretty much Linux-specific.  On OpenBSD you'll get
> (basic) input device hotplug capability through wscons (which is
> always available).

is this actual X hotplugging support or just the kernel multiplexing,
similar to /dev/input/mice?

Cheers,
   Peter

> 
> > Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer at who-t.net>
> > ---
> >  configure.ac | 8 ++++++++
> >  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
> > index 435a38f..94f63ff 100644
> > --- a/configure.ac
> > +++ b/configure.ac
> > @@ -2216,6 +2216,14 @@ AC_SUBST([prefix])
> >  
> >  AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS([sdksyms], [touch hw/xfree86/sdksyms.dep])
> >  
> > +if test "x$CONFIG_HAL" = xno && test "x$CONFIG_UDEV" = xno; then
> > +    AC_WARN([
> > +             ***********************************************
> > +             Neither HAL nor udev backend will be enabled.
> > +             Input device hotplugging will not be available!
> > +             ***********************************************])
> > +fi
> > +
> >  AC_OUTPUT([
> >  Makefile
> >  glx/Makefile
> > -- 
> > 1.8.1
> > 
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