Re: [oe-commits] org.oe.dev xserver-common 1.13: Re-add calibrate-only-if-ts.patch after merge.

[Florian Boor <florian.boor@kernelconcepts.de>]

Hi,

Richard Purdie wrote:

> My intention was to standardise all 2.6 kernels using udev to use the
> udev rule, use /dev/touchscreen* and therefore remove the need for
> detect-stylus and machine specific ts-conf packages. I have no problem
> having custom tslib conf files for a 2.4 device which needs to work
> differently. I have now changed the defaults to reflect what the
> majority of new users will be using though.

right, basically a good idea I like as well, but not a hack that is likely
break things.

> As for xserver-common, I'd like to see the standard version of the
> scripts remain detect-stylus free as it can work on the majority of
> targets supported by OE without that now. If some legacy devices need
> it, lets give them a machine specific customised xserver-common like
> tslib. OE can handle that kind of thing really easily.

It should not be necessary to have machine specific versions of that package
which is something we should try to avoid where ever possible.
Just make that patch a little bit more smart... maybe check if TSLIB_TSDEVICE is
set and honor is in this case.

> needs even if not acceptable "upstream". Issues like this is one reason
> poky "forked" those scripts as we knew our needs might not always match

Well... in this case it is that easy to avoid forking, so why wasting
time maintaining a fork?

Greetings

Florian

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