[RFC] Automatic modifier update of slave devices

[Daniel Stone]

Hi,

On 11 March 2014 06:44, Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer at who-t.net> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 10:10:40PM +0100, Daniel Stone wrote:
>> Ack from me - either 3 (mirror locks) or 4 (mirror all state).  The
>> main downside is that people listening for XKB state change events on
>> slaves might see multiple events, but eh, don't do that really.  I
>> think there's a good argument to be made for 4 in that the master and
>> slave state would then be totally coherent; it would also help the
>> footpedal case.
>>
>> If I was doing anything at all with allowExplicit and LEDDrivesKB,
>> it'd be to purge support for them entirely.  The only way xkbcommon
>> eventually got some form of tractability was dropping support for
>> things like this, including binning mutable keymaps entirely: this
>> meant abandoning the idea of ever using it in the server, but oh well.
>
> The second patch-set is available here:
> http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel/2014-March/040835.html
> I'd appreciate a review so I can push this. I can drop 2/4, 1/4 has a v3.

1, 3, and 4 are Reviewed-by: Daniel Stone <daniel at fooishbar.org>; 2 is
Acked-by if you want to push it, but I don't really see the value.

Cheers,
Daniel