[Xorg] Input device hotplug

[Egbert Eich]

Keith Packard writes:
 > 
 > Around 19 o'clock on Jun 23, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Kristian_H=F8gsberg?= wrote:
 > 
 > > The overall design I'm thinking of is to keep the device discovery 
 > > mechanism out of the X server.
 > 
 > I think that's probably the right design.

Provided it is generic and not X specific. 

 > 
 > > One thing I'ld like to discuss is where to add the add and remove device 
 > > interface
 > 
 > I'd like to think this belongs in the XInput extension.  There are other 
 > changes which we can add to that extension at the same time and rev the 
 > protocol version.  Coding up backward-compatibility stuff will also be 
 > necessary; take a look at how XFixes manages that (client sends its 
 > version number, X server ensures protocol is compatible with that version).
 > 

When we do this we should try to fix other issues with the XInput
extension. It's a while back since I've looked at it but there are
some things that immediately strike ones eyes just reading the specs.

Egbert.