Re: [ANNOUNCE] xf86-input-fpit 1.4.0

2011-06-28 Thread Alan Cox
the standard is pretty much defined by what the driver can take. If it can't parse the protocol then the device is rather useless anyway. but really, writing a serial kernel driver is rather trivial and has a higher chance of actually working long-term than dragging the old input drivers

Re: [ANNOUNCE] xf86-input-fpit 1.4.0

2011-06-28 Thread Peter Hutterer
On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 11:02:19AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: the standard is pretty much defined by what the driver can take. If it can't parse the protocol then the device is rather useless anyway. but really, writing a serial kernel driver is rather trivial and has a higher chance of

Re: [ANNOUNCE] xf86-input-fpit 1.4.0

2011-06-27 Thread Piotr Gluszenia Slawinski
Thanx for maintaining the driver. AFAIK kernel input driver does not exist, and this is one of last resort to make one enjoy wonders of X. ad. testing - i still use much older version , which works fine, except pointer goes crazy under heavy load sometimes. it seems that it's serial port is

Re: [ANNOUNCE] xf86-input-fpit 1.4.0

2011-06-27 Thread Peter Hutterer
On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 10:48:55PM +0200, Piotr Gluszenia Slawinski wrote: Thanx for maintaining the driver. AFAIK kernel input driver does not exist, and this is one of last resort to make one enjoy wonders of X. ad. testing - i still use much older version , which works fine, except

Re: [ANNOUNCE] xf86-input-fpit 1.4.0

2011-06-27 Thread Piotr Gluszenia Slawinski
the standard is pretty much defined by what the driver can take. If it can't parse the protocol then the device is rather useless anyway. but really, writing a serial kernel driver is rather trivial and has a higher chance of actually working long-term than dragging the old input drivers along.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] xf86-input-fpit 1.4.0

2011-06-27 Thread Corbin Simpson
I believe the point is to have such a driver in the vanilla kernel, not to adopt a third-party driver. Is this hardware available anywhere besides thrift stores? Sending from a mobile, pardon my terseness. ~ C. On Jun 27, 2011 4:01 PM, Piotr Gluszenia Slawinski

Re: [ANNOUNCE] xf86-input-fpit 1.4.0

2011-06-27 Thread Piotr Gluszenia Slawinski
I believe the point is to have such a driver in the vanilla kernel, not to adopt a third-party driver. Is this hardware available anywhere besides thrift stores? personally i doubt it, thus i doubt it makes any point to try to put it to vanilla. also there are other devices like tablets

Re: [ANNOUNCE] xf86-input-fpit 1.4.0

2011-06-27 Thread Piotr Gluszenia Slawinski
I believe the point is to have such a driver in the vanilla kernel, not to adopt a third-party driver. Is this hardware available anywhere besides thrift stores? hmm, as i've googled a bit for pentest.c i've realized phasing driver to linux kernel drops support for such devices for i.e NetBSD

Re: [ANNOUNCE] xf86-input-fpit 1.4.0

2011-06-27 Thread Peter Hutterer
On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 01:03:32AM +0200, Piotr Gluszenia Slawinski wrote: the standard is pretty much defined by what the driver can take. If it can't parse the protocol then the device is rather useless anyway. but really, writing a serial kernel driver is rather trivial and has a higher

Re: [ANNOUNCE] xf86-input-fpit 1.4.0

2011-06-27 Thread Peter Hutterer
On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 01:47:43AM +0200, Piotr Gluszenia Slawinski wrote: I believe the point is to have such a driver in the vanilla kernel, not to adopt a third-party driver. Is this hardware available anywhere besides thrift stores? personally i doubt it, thus i doubt it makes any