[PATCH 01/12] dbus-core: Move to hw/xfree86/common dir

James Cloos cloos at jhcloos.com
Thu Jan 30 09:46:12 PST 2014


[Still slowly catching up -JimC]

>>>>> "PH" == Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer at who-t.net> writes:

PH> my long-term plan is to replace xf86-input-* with xf86-input-libinput.
PH> that is/will be a wrapper around libinput which provides almost drop-in
PH> functionality for the other drivers, including a couple of things that
PH> weren't possible before with the current driver model.

Back when the attempts were made to move input into a separate thread,
it occurred to me that we should move input to separate executables.

Ie, have the server listen(2) on a socket for input events, rather than
link in drivers.

-JimC
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