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[157.192.85.58]) by smtp.googlemail.com with ESMTPSA id v83-v6sm18771431pfa.103.2018.10.05.18.35.10 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Fri, 05 Oct 2018 18:35:11 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: Should FreeBSD 12 release have evdev support in GENERIC? To: =?UTF-8?Q?T=c4=b3l_Coosemans?= References: <20181005202837.3e95a61a@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org> From: Denis Polygalov Cc: x11@FreeBSD.org Message-ID: <885d9307-6ac7-72e7-d968-5ea4b9b11a21@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2018 10:35:06 +0900 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.9.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20181005202837.3e95a61a@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.27 Precedence: list List-Id: X11 on FreeBSD -- maintaining and support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2018 01:35:14 -0000 Hi, having evdev support in GENERIC kernel will advance things like having Wayland compositor (Weston) to be used without re-compilation of the kernel and better support of things like touch-screen input, but the problem is that currently evdev sometimes cause troubles: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D15070 Having troubles in GENERIC kernel is not good... So I myself will be only happy having evdev enabled, but because FreeBSD used in many more non-evdev related applications extra care should be taken in order not to break things for all these fleets of FreeBSD servers... Regards, Denis On 6/10/2018 3:28 AM, Tijl Coosemans wrote: > Hi, > > It may be a bit late in the release process, but shouldn't FreeBSD 12 > have evdev support in GENERIC? > > device evdev # input event device support > options EVDEV_SUPPORT # evdev support in legacy drivers > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-x11@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-x11 > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-x11-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >