[PATCH] Use cached XKB keymap when rules haven't changed

Peter Hutterer peter.hutterer at who-t.net
Mon Dec 1 14:26:32 PST 2008


On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 02:31:48AM +1100, Daniel Stone wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 06:36:32AM -0800, Dan Nicholson wrote:
> > I was reading the xkb-atkins log a couple weeks ago. It looks like a
> > nice diet. :)
> 
> FWIW, this is progressing nicely, except I've currently regressed the
> case where people can't compile XKB keymaps.  Normally I wouldn't
> really care about this, but the failure mode is the server crashing
> when a client connects, because PickKeyboard() returns NULL.  Oops.
> 
> Not hugely sure what to do there.  Peter?

Weird. PK should never return NULL, since there's always the VCK and the VCP.
Did you pull in ec1d08442f6935? This change enables the core devices before any
Xkb* stuff for any other devices is called, maybe side-stepping the problem.

Cheers,
  Peter



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