On Wed 2015-01-21 20:38:46, Henrik Rydberg wrote: > Hi Benjamin, > > > - there is a fragmentation problem: we would have to fix the bug in > > xorg-synaptics (which is slowly waiting for its death), libinput, > > ChromeOS, Qt Embedded, Kivy (I think), etc... > > Indeed, this is the problem I wanted to highlight. As the fragmentation problem > grows (graphics, input, compositors, toolkits), the need for a common > denominator grows as well. However, I do not think the kernel should be the > single common denominator for all the world's problems. Rather, the purpose of > the kernel is to convey hardware information and control as accurately, > effectively and generically as possible. No, sorry, that's not true. Kernel should provide hardware abstraction, hiding differences between different machines. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-input" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
