On Friday, June 03, 2011 01:33:05 PM Marco Chiappero wrote: > Il 03/06/2011 22:23, Dmitry Torokhov ha scritto: > > Why do we want to do this? X allows to ignore certain pointing devices > > IIRC. > > Because I believe it turns off the device, the power state is also > stored and preserved across reboots and shutdowns. Telling X to ignore > the input is, IMHO, a workaround if we have the hardware capability for > that The issue with that that we are breeding myriad of quirks that nobody knows about and nobody ever uses. X provides standardized way of ignoring input devices. It is also more transparent than "I once wrote something to some sysfs file and I completely forgot about this but now my touchpad does not work". There were quite a few bugs filed just because users pressed key that cuts power to touchpad and stores the state across reboots. > (and why should we suppose that X will be used always and > forever?). We should not but replacement should have at least the same functionality if not better. -- Dmitry -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe platform-driver-x86" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
