[ANNOUNCE] synaptics-alt 0.9.3

Matthew Garrett mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org
Fri Jul 4 02:25:43 PDT 2008


On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 12:19:45AM -0700, Paul Vojta wrote:
> This is to announce version 0.9.3 of my (alternate) Synaptics touchpad
> driver.  This driver differs from the standard one in that it has only
> one author (so far), and hence no copyright issues.  Also, it uses an
> extension for configuration instead of shared memory.

Ouch. It'd be nice to work on per-input device properties[1] rather than 
introducing an extension per driver - if we can get that done 
beforehand, then there's no need to carry around a legacy configuration 
mechanism for years.

[1] Think xrandr properties, but for input devices

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org



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