Re: [PATCH 1/1]: input: add support for VirtualBox touchscreenemulation to the Lifebook driver

From: Dmitry Torokhov
Date: Tue Mar 02 2010 - 17:40:22 EST


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?

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Dmitry
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