Your argument would make sense if X didn't go to painful lengths to
maintain an abstract input driver API/ABI that allowed for arbitrary
drivers.
confused. I was saying that the evdev wasn't as good an example of how to
write a driver than the joystick was.
The joystick driver itself
Chuck Robey wrote:
I'm really rather curious where you got the idea that FreeBSD had something
that
looked even vaguely like the Linux events. I know that if you look at the
FreeBSD man page EVENTHANDLER(9) you can see an event interface, but that one
is
intra-kernel, not exported to
On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 04:59:33PM +0200, Matthieu Herrb wrote:
Chuck Robey wrote:
I'm really rather curious where you got the idea that FreeBSD had something
that
looked even vaguely like the Linux events. I know that if you look at the
FreeBSD man page EVENTHANDLER(9) you can see an
Daniel Stone wrote:
On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 04:59:33PM +0200, Matthieu Herrb wrote:
Chuck Robey wrote:
I'm really rather curious where you got the idea that FreeBSD had something
that
looked even vaguely like the Linux events. I know that if you look at the
FreeBSD man page EVENTHANDLER(9)
On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 11:48:08AM -0400, Chuck Robey wrote:
Daniel Stone wrote:
On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 04:59:33PM +0200, Matthieu Herrb wrote:
Chuck Robey wrote:
I'm really rather curious where you got the idea that FreeBSD had
something that
looked even vaguely like the Linux
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Daniel Stone wrote:
On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 11:48:08AM -0400, Chuck Robey wrote:
Daniel Stone wrote:
On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 04:59:33PM +0200, Matthieu Herrb wrote:
Chuck Robey wrote:
I'm really rather curious where you got the idea that FreeBSD
On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 11:48:08AM -0400, Chuck Robey wrote:
I myself really like the approach that xf86-input-joystick takes, it allows
the
approach that evdev takes for Linux, but it doesn't try to suppose that the
event interface that only works for Linux can work for other OSes. You know
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Adam Jackson wrote:
On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 09:24 -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
Chuck Robey wrote:
Sorry, I can't parse what you wrote. You don't know where I heard that
Xorg is
Linux-only? Is that what you said? My understanding *had been*
Both Solaris and BSD have very similar event APIs, afaik, and could
easily have drivers for same. But they don't. Patches gratefully etc.
- ajax
I'm really rather curious where you got the idea that FreeBSD had something
that looked even vaguely like the Linux events. I know that if
On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 08:38:09PM -0400, Chuck Robey wrote:
I don't know if this is important or not, and I won't harp on this, but I've
heard before that an attempt is made both to keep evdev.c very current, AND to
have it not have anything in it that is Linux-only.
I don't know where you
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 12:10:13 -0400, Chuck Robey wrote:
Sorry, I can't parse what you wrote.
EVDEV IS LINUX ONLY.
Is that clearer now?
Cheers,
Julien
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On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 08:38:09PM -0400, Chuck Robey wrote:
I don't know if this is important or not, and I won't harp on this, but I've
heard before that an attempt is made both to keep evdev.c very current, AND to
have it not have anything in it that is Linux-only.
AFAIK, only the linux
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