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Message-ID: <20100302223947.GC13499@core.coreip.homeip.net> Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 14:39:47 -0800 From: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com> To: Michael Thayer <Michael.Thayer@....COM> Cc: linux-input@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1]: input: add support for VirtualBox touchscreen emulation to the Lifebook driver On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 11:00:19PM +0100, Michael Thayer wrote: > 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. > You need to distribute something... Or do these older distros already include your guest drivers? -- Dmitry -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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