From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753811Ab0CBWkE (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Mar 2010 17:40:04 -0500 Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.220.158]:56390 "EHLO fg-out-1718.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751887Ab0CBWkA (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Mar 2010 17:40:00 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:content-transfer-encoding :in-reply-to:user-agent; b=RHFU3F5XBphHmfDGyfUuJL8MxI3AqbqcOR51NxCx16Gr5qYQnesc03DXL0DQ5gNE9s OtzHf1u9hm+iiiRpPR5QFvtxBTBcTajVQwAC2iBzcf0+4TTcOkb7zPNDZTOZnQSgcho+ amE2K9rnPHP/2PJVBhb+dGSW626e1ZbEpAo7c= Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 14:39:47 -0800 From: Dmitry Torokhov To: Michael Thayer Cc: linux-input@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1]: input: add support for VirtualBox touchscreen emulation to the Lifebook driver Message-ID: <20100302223947.GC13499@core.coreip.homeip.net> References: <1266923615.3602.85.camel@michael-laptop> <20100223175852.GA11301@core.coreip.homeip.net> <1266958533.3602.128.camel@michael-laptop> <20100224100206.GA5598@core.coreip.homeip.net> <1267011989.2831.30.camel@michael-laptop> <20100225101705.GF10823@core.coreip.homeip.net> <1267562688.2441.7.camel@michael-laptop> <20100302212812.GA13499@core.coreip.homeip.net> <1267567219.2441.12.camel@michael-laptop> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <1267567219.2441.12.camel@michael-laptop> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-08-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 11:00:19PM +0100, Michael Thayer wrote: > Le mardi 02 mars 2010 à 13:28 -0800, Dmitry Torokhov a écrit : > > On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 09:44:48PM +0100, Michael Thayer wrote: > > > it still provides a reasonable user experience until the user has installed our > > > guest drivers. > > > > It is your call but I would much rather if you worked on fixeng evdev to > > work with your virtual device rather than having to install a new X > > driver and going through the hoops trying to detect which one should be > > used on a particular box. At least on Linux... > That wouldn't really help us much here, as we are talking about distributions > shipping X.Org Server 1.4 and earlier, and those distributions are no longer > going to get that sort of update (in those cases in which they are still > getting updates at all). Legacy support if you like. > You need to distribute something... Or do these older distros already include your guest drivers? -- Dmitry