[PATCH xf86-input-libinput] man: note that we don't do /dev/input/by-id or /dev/input/by-path

Adam Jackson ajax at nwnk.net
Mon Mar 19 19:48:08 UTC 2018


On Mon, 2018-03-19 at 10:04 +1000, Peter Hutterer wrote:
> For logind-setups we need to match the path libinput wants to open with the
> Option Device path that the device has so we know when to return the
> server-fd. This doesn't work for by-id or by-path because libinput resolves
> those (through udev) to the actual eventX node so our paths look different
> when they are the same device.
> 
> This could be fixed but since this is easy enough to work around with a
> InputClass section and rather a niche case, it's not really worth the effort.
> 
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105562
> 
> Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer at who-t.net>

Reviewed-by: Adam Jackson <ajax at redhat.com>

- ajax


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