From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 18:28:59 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] xserver_xorg-server: backport hotplug support In-Reply-To: <1339603696-2787-1-git-send-email-rbraun@sceen.net> References: <1339603696-2787-1-git-send-email-rbraun@sceen.net> Message-ID: <20120613182859.3217c88c@skate> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Le Wed, 13 Jun 2012 18:08:16 +0200, Richard Braun a ?crit : > The hotplug and configuration improvements in the X server 1.8 branch, > namely the udev backend and the xorg.conf.d directory, were backported > in the 1.7 Debian package. Grab the appropriate patches from the > Debian xorg-server_1.7.7-14 sources, bump version to 1.7.7 for the > latest fixes and clean patching, and adjust the makefile to enable > the udev backend when using udev. This, combined with the evdev input > driver, provides automatic support for USB mouse/keyboard > hotplugging, and probably other device types. Unless I'm wrong X11R7.7 has been released some time ago, and it includes X server 1.12, at http://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.7/src/xserver/. So why would we bother backporting 1.8 material to a 1.7 version? Upgrading the complete X.org stack to X11R7.7 seems like a much more appropriate solution. Or maybe I'm missing something obvious? Moreover in general, we don't like to carry patches that aim at adding features. We carry patches to fix build problems, or sometimes architecture-specific fixes, but large new features should not be added to packages using patches, otherwise Buildroot will become an unmaintainable crap of patches. Best regards, Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux development, consulting, training and support. http://free-electrons.com