From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Thayer Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1]: input: add support for VirtualBox touchscreen emulation to the Lifebook driver Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:00:19 +0100 Message-ID: <1267567219.2441.12.camel@michael-laptop> References: <1266923615.3602.85.camel@michael-laptop> <20100223175852.GA11301@core.coreip.homeip.net> <1266958533.3602.128.camel@michael-laptop> <20100224100206.GA5598@core.coreip.homeip.net> <1267011989.2831.30.camel@michael-laptop> <20100225101705.GF10823@core.coreip.homeip.net> <1267562688.2441.7.camel@michael-laptop> <20100302212812.GA13499@core.coreip.homeip.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: In-reply-to: <20100302212812.GA13499@core.coreip.homeip.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Dmitry Torokhov Cc: linux-input@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-input@vger.kernel.org Le mardi 02 mars 2010 =C3=A0 13:28 -0800, Dmitry Torokhov a =C3=A9crit = : > On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 09:44:48PM +0100, Michael Thayer wrote: > > it still provides a reasonable user experience until the user has i= nstalled our > > guest drivers. >=20 > It is your call but I would much rather if you worked on fixeng evdev= to > work with your virtual device rather than having to install a new X > driver and going through the hoops trying to detect which one should = be > used on a particular box. At least on Linux... That wouldn't really help us much here, as we are talking about distrib= utions shipping X.Org Server 1.4 and earlier, and those distributions are no l= onger going to get that sort of update (in those cases in which they are stil= l getting updates at all). Legacy support if you like. Thanks again, Michael --=20 Sun Microsystems GmbH Michael Thayer Werkstrasse 24 VirtualBox engineer 71384 Weinstadt, Germany mailto:michael.thayer@sun.com Sitz der Gesellschaft: Sun Microsystems GmbH, Sonnenallee 1, 85551 Kirchheim-Heimstetten Amtsgericht Muenchen: HRB 161028 Geschaeftsfuehrer: Thomas Schroeder, Wolfgang Engels Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrates: Martin Haering