[CFT] changes and updates to x11 input devices

Greg greg at unrelenting.technology
Mon Jun 11 18:29:36 UTC 2018


On 06/11, Denis Polygalov wrote:
>Enabling EVDEV in GENERIC kernel will also allow to compile weston -
>(reference Wayland composer) without re-compiling the kernel.
>Unfortunately I can not find link now, but few weeks ago I read
>a report stating that using evdev in FreeBSD cause kernel panic
>after DIS-connection of some devices....
>I also would like to know - is the evdev is the right way
>for FreeBSD or there is (will be) alternative solution?

Hi! I think the problem blocking evdev from on-by-default was the 
keyboard deadlock that could happen when using the debugger:
https://reviews.freebsd.org/D15070

And of course evdev is the right way. We even have evdev-only drivers 
now: wmt(4)


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