From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750857AbWGXPWy (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Jul 2006 11:22:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751097AbWGXPWy (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Jul 2006 11:22:54 -0400 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.174]:35589 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750857AbWGXPWx convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Jul 2006 11:22:53 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=k0lTVCL5GQDnptMgD62x819mGOLN4nhWzbRmxzDx5OfLecH97tbt/h3Zo0OMoe85W1BH7lmN0Msxjc6pAU0TiUDagj6iFKQFhO3I7PGV5FxhLo/39qznHHNo8J95JHOPosOhrDEUIleNAFdLPdsoJzdCWueAiYbvSDu5B2cJz3I= Message-ID: Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 11:22:51 -0400 From: "Dmitry Torokhov" To: "Daniel Stone" Subject: Re: [RFC] input: Wacom tablet driver for simple X hotplugging Cc: "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Magnus_Vigerl=F6f?=" , linux-input@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20060724151159.GA5082@fooishbar.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Content-Disposition: inline References: <20060721211341.5366.93270.sendpatchset@pipe> <200607212209.05254.dtor@insightbb.com> <20060724151159.GA5082@fooishbar.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 7/24/06, Daniel Stone wrote: > On Fri, Jul 21, 2006 at 10:09:04PM -0400, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > On Friday 21 July 2006 17:13, Magnus Vigerlöf wrote: > > > I'd appreciate whether you think this is a viable idea to make it as a > > > generic driver instead or should I continue with the Wacom-specific > > > one. I know the 'right' thing would be to make X truly hot-plug aware, > > > but this driver is something that would be possible to use in current > > > systems without any problems. > > > > > > > Yes, I think fixing X would ultimately be time better spent. > > It's already mostly done, and should hopefully land for 7.2. It's a > neat concept, along the lines of /dev/input/mice, but the time for that > kind of pathological braindamage is long gone. > Oh that is the great news! -- Dmitry