From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753429Ab0CBWAh (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Mar 2010 17:00:37 -0500 Received: from gmp-eb-inf-1.sun.com ([192.18.6.21]:43487 "EHLO gmp-eb-inf-1.sun.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752562Ab0CBWAf (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Mar 2010 17:00:35 -0500 MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 8BIT Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:00:19 +0100 From: Michael Thayer Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1]: input: add support for VirtualBox touchscreen emulation to the Lifebook driver In-reply-to: <20100302212812.GA13499@core.coreip.homeip.net> To: Dmitry Torokhov Cc: linux-input@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Message-id: <1267567219.2441.12.camel@michael-laptop> Organization: Sun Microsystems GmbH X-Mailer: Evolution 2.28.1 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> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. Thanks again, Michael -- 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