On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 22:01 +0200, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote: > On 5/12/07, Drew Parsons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello Giuseppe, > > > > I uploaded your new version of the X acecad input driver to debian > > unstable. Could you verify it works well enough? > > Seems to work correctly, thanks. >
Good news :) > > You mentioned in the other bug about Recommending libsysfs. Could you > > file a separate bug if you still think it's needed, so we can get the > > idea peer-reviewed. For instance, where you said to Recommend: > > libsysfs-dev, I think you meant Build-Depends: libsysfs-dev? Also, I > > want to be sure it won't break things on kernels which haven't compiled > > sysfs. > > libsysfs-dev should be recommended for building the package, yes. I'm > not sure if libsysfs itself should be Suggested or Recommended for the > precompiled package: it's used by the automatic device detection code > to simplify and speed up detection, but it's not necessary, and the > feature works without it too. > The libsysfs dependency will be dragged in automatically if we build against libsysfs-dev, so that shouldn't be a problem (unless people start complaining their installation is getting bloated for pulling in libraries when they don't use sysfs, but at 80 bytes I think the libsysfs2 package isn't really going to bust their system). > Also, there should be no problem if the kernel is compiled without > sysfs, because all return values from the libsysfs calls are checked > before attempting data retrieval/use. > OK, sounds like it should be safe to build the sysfs support into the driver in that case. Thanks for the feedback, Drew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
