[PATCH evdev] conf: rename to 65-evdev.conf

Stefan Dirsch sndirsch at suse.de
Fri May 20 12:51:45 UTC 2016


On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 11:47:45AM +1000, Peter Hutterer wrote:
> On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 05:37:59PM +0200, Stefan Dirsch wrote:
> > Bump up evdev driver to 65, so it get's perferred over libipnut,
> > which was dropped down to 60. Reason is, that evdev driver is more
> > of an additional driver, which likely won't be installed by default
> > on a system any longer. But if it is installed it should also be
> > used, i.e. preferred over libinput.
> > 
> > Similar to what was done for wacom configuration file.
> > 
> > https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=979554
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch at suse.de>
> 
> nope, can't do this yet. evdev is still more flexible than libinput and
> handles a couple of devices that libinput doesn't handle. so we have to
> assume that for the time being evdev will be installed on most machines.

Thanks, Peter. This sounds reasonable. I'm going to revert my changes for SUSE
therefore, i.e. simply forget about my patch. ;-)

CU,
Stefan

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