On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 2:42 PM, Stéphane Chatty <[email protected]> wrote: > this may have been discussed already, but have you considered building HID > as a module in the kernel? This would make things easier for owners of new > multitouch machines: each new product needs to be referenced in hid-core.c, > and one needs to recompile the whole kernel if hid is not a module.
Yes, we discussed this a few weeks ago and decided to modularize the HID module. This enabled me to build a package for the Apple Magic Mouse device in the multitouch PPA. This system allows us to be very flexible even on a released kernel, and it's rather easy for users to install packages from a PPA. If you have other devices that you want to put into a PPA we should coordinate. If there was a different package for different drivers only one could be installed at a time because they would clobber each other. I'd be happy to integrate drivers if that's what's needed, since I've already got the packaging foundation for the magicmouse driver. -- Chase _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~multi-touch-dev Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~multi-touch-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
