[PATCH xf86-input-libinput] Add tablet pad support

[Jason Gerecke]

On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 10:25 PM, Peter Hutterer
<peter.hutterer at who-t.net> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 12:07:27PM +1000, Peter Hutterer wrote:
>> > Also, on a somewhat-related note: I'm noticing that having
>> > xf86-input-libinput and xf86-input-wacom installed alongside each
>> > other results in some pretty annoying driver priority issues. I've got
>> > 0.17.0 installed at the moment and it ends up grabbing the pad on my
>> > 24HDT since udev tags it as a keyboard (probably because it has
>> > KEY_PROG1 through KEY_PROG3) and since libinput's xorg.conf.d file has
>> > a '90' prefix. The libinput driver later drops the device since udev
>> > also tags it as a buttonset, preventing the buttons from being usable
>> > under X at all (let alone usable by GNOME). If simultaneous
>> > installation of the libinput and wacom drivers is supposed to work,
>> > there might be some work to do...
>>
>> yes, we'll have to use the new-ish NoMatch bits for that. unfortunately,
>> there is little way around this and I haven't gotten to it yet. I'll bump
>> this up in the todo list.
>
> I stared at this for a bit today and our main problem is that we don't have
> a release with the NoMatch* bits, so we can't ship anything in the near
> future that relies on it.
>
> I think the only reasonable solution for now is for distributions to install
> 50-wacom.conf as 91-wacom.conf and thus override any libinput assignments.
> The wacom driver is more of a leaf package than libinput, so the simple
> instructions for users would then be "if you want libinput to handle the
> tablet, uninstall xf86-input-wacom".
>
> Cheers,
>    Peter

We need to make a new release of xf86-input-wacom pretty soon anyway
-- shall I just do the rename in our repo and then leave it up to
yum/apt/etc. to sort out when the release is pulled into each distro?

Jason
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