Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2018 10:11:40 +0100 From: Johannes Lundberg <johalun0@gmail.com> To: dpolyg <dpolyg@gmail.com> Cc: tijl@freebsd.org, x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Should FreeBSD 12 release have evdev support in GENERIC? Message-ID: <CAECmPwucurvsht0ykTYX-0zD-qVi=dVNXZqhtkKZPsLckFi8Mg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <885d9307-6ac7-72e7-d968-5ea4b9b11a21@gmail.com> References: <20181005202837.3e95a61a@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org> <885d9307-6ac7-72e7-d968-5ea4b9b11a21@gmail.com>
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On Sat, Oct 6, 2018 at 5:07 AM Denis Polygalov <dpolyg@gmail.com> wrote: > 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... > It would be nice if at least we could move it from compile time option to a sysctl so it's easier to enable for all the people who want to use it. > Regards, > Denis > > > On 6/10/2018 3:28 AM, T=C4=B3l 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" > > > _______________________________________________ > 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" >
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