On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 12:46:57PM +1000, Peter Hutterer wrote: > We've retired a few input drivers a while ago. The ones we still have left > are in a variety of different states. The big 4 are maintained and expected > to work (evdev, synaptics, mouse, keyboard) with the development version of > X. Joystick is maintained, and Sascha is usually able to get the driver > updated quickly. > > For other drivers, the situation isn't as clear-cut: > - acecad: officially maintained, but Guiseppe's last commit was Feb 2008. > I don't have a device. I contacted Guiseppe Dec 2010 regarding > maintainership, afaict I didn't get a reply. > - aiptek is unmaintained again as of Dec 2010. There is at least one user > (#26584). > - elographics is maintained, but Marc hasn't committed to the driver yet. > I know that elographics-1.3.0 crashed on UnInit with server 1.10 until I > fixed it about a month after the release. > I'm currently in a private conversation with a user to get this driver to > work. > - fpit. unmaintained and untested. > - hyperpen. unmaintained and untested > - microtouch. unmaintained and untested > - mutouch. unmaintained and untested > - penmount. unmaintained and mostly untested though we have reports of user > sightings every so often. Jani volunteered to test the driver in April but > that never made it into MAINTAINERS. > - void. maintained and pointless.
acecad, aiptek, fpit, hyperpen, penmount and mutouch now present a warning to the users. These drivers will not see future patches unless a user _with a device_ is willing to test them. Es war sehr schön, es hat mich sehr gefreut. Cheers, Peter _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
