[Xorg] Input device hotplug

[Egbert Eich]

Keith Packard writes:
 > 
 > Around 15 o'clock on Jul 4, Egbert Eich wrote:
 > 
 > > What I worry about a little bit is an extra support burdeon as we have
 > > to run start three processes to get X up and running. If due to some
 > > misconfiguration or misinstallation one of them isn't working we have
 > > a support nightmare.
 > 
 > That's a very good point; we often forget that system configuration 
 > complexity leads directly to system mis-configuration.  The system should 
 > either be impossible to mis-configure, or should be designed to 
 > self-correct in the face of error.  The first is clearly better.
 > 

True. What I'm also concerned about are crashes in the separate components
that happen in states of the system which rarely occur.
With X consisting of several subsystems the bug reports we receive from
users may be even less conclusive. (And we may have 3 log files instead of
one).

Egbert.