From: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
To: Michael Thayer <Michael.Thayer@Sun.COM>
Cc: linux-input@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1]: input: add support for VirtualBox touchscreen emulation to the Lifebook driver
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 14:39:47 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100302223947.GC13499@core.coreip.homeip.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1267567219.2441.12.camel@michael-laptop>
On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 11:00:19PM +0100, Michael Thayer wrote:
> Le mardi 02 mars 2010 à 13:28 -0800, Dmitry Torokhov a écrit :
> > On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 09:44:48PM +0100, Michael Thayer wrote:
> > > it still provides a reasonable user experience until the user has installed our
> > > guest drivers.
> >
> > 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 distributions
> shipping X.Org Server 1.4 and earlier, and those distributions are no longer
> going to get that sort of update (in those cases in which they are still
> getting updates at all). Legacy support if you like.
>
You need to distribute something... Or do these older distros already
include your guest drivers?
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Dmitry
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-02 22:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-23 11:13 [PATCH 1/1]: input: add support for VirtualBox touchscreen emulation to the Lifebook driver Michael Thayer
2010-02-23 17:58 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-02-23 20:55 ` Michael Thayer
2010-02-24 10:02 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-02-24 11:46 ` Michael Thayer
2010-02-25 10:17 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-03-02 20:44 ` Michael Thayer
2010-03-02 21:28 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-03-02 22:00 ` Michael Thayer
2010-03-02 22:39 ` Dmitry Torokhov [this message]
2010-03-02 23:13 ` Michael Thayer
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