Should FreeBSD 12 release have evdev support in GENERIC?

[Denis Polygalov]

Hi,

having evdev support in GENERIC kernel will advance
things like having Wayland compositor (Weston) to
be used without re-compilation of the kernel and
better support of things like touch-screen input, but
the problem is that currently evdev sometimes cause
troubles:

https://reviews.freebsd.org/D15070

Having troubles in GENERIC kernel is not good...
So I myself will be only happy having evdev enabled, but
because FreeBSD used in many more non-evdev related
applications extra care should be taken in order not to
break things for all these fleets of FreeBSD servers...

Regards,
Denis


On 6/10/2018 3:28 AM, Tijl Coosemans wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> It may be a bit late in the release process, but shouldn't FreeBSD 12
> have evdev support in GENERIC?
> 
> device		evdev		# input event device support
> options 	EVDEV_SUPPORT	# evdev support in legacy drivers
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