[Xorg] XInput Hotplug Additions
Jim Gettys
Jim.Gettys at hp.com
Tue Aug 3 04:56:54 PDT 2004
On Mon, 2004-08-02 at 23:41, Keith Packard wrote:
> Around 3 o'clock on Aug 3, =?UTF-8?B?S3Jpc3RpYW4gSMO4Z3NiZXJn?= wrote:
>
> > I was aiming for a solution that would work with the existing range of
> > input drivers, but if that's not strictly needed, that's cool.
>
> Yeah, I don't see any reason to continue to support user-level device
> drivers when few (any?) systems need them any more. If you want hot-plug,
> then you get to create a reasonable input system. For really broken
> environments, a user-level process could open the device and submit
> standard format events through some back-channel.
We'll need this for network transparent input devices anyway.
- Jim
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