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Date:      Sat, 22 Feb 2020 07:17:06 -0800
From:      Ihor Antonov <ihor@antonovs.family>
To:        Per Hedeland <per@hedeland.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD 12.0 end-of-life
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On 2020-02-21 22:28, Per Hedeland wrote:
> On 2020-02-21 18:09, Ihor Antonov wrote:
> > On 2020-02-21 09:51, Tomasz CEDRO wrote:
> >> On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 8:40 AM Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org> wrote:
> >>> On Fri, 21 Feb 2020 06:08:23 +0100
> >>> Tomasz CEDRO <tomek@cedro.info> wrote:
> >>>> This is clearly something that is very missing in the Handbook / WIKI
> >>>> / synaptics manpages!
> >>>         Perfect opportunity to submit a documentation patch.
> >>
> >> Indeed! :-) https://github.com/wulf7/iichid/issues/18
> >>
> >> This IICHID is a total fresh thing (and still experimental)! It had
> >> initial release just 9 days ago and I did not head about this project
> >> before. So nice to talk with smart people, thank you! :-)
> >>
> >
> > iichid looks very similar in purpose to libinput [1]. What are
> > similarities/differences? I wonoder what is the motivation for the
> > project?
> 
> Well, my limited understanding (I haven't looked at the code for
> either iichid or libinput) is that this module gives libinput
> something to use for a certain class of hardware - it's not an
> *alternative*. How could libinput use hardware that isn't supported by
> the OS kernel? If you read my writeup earlier in the thread, I needed
> both this driver and x11-drivers/xf86-input-libinput to get my
> touchpad to work.

Thanks for the clarification!

> --Per
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