Re: The other kbd bug from today's call

Do you propose to keep the "keyboard"->"kbd" alias around after the old 
driver has been removed or just until the next release?  If it's the 
latter I think we might as well remove it sooner that later instead of 
postponing it.  Besides, people upgrading from packages instead of 
tar.gz would probably not notice anything, since the package could just 
patch xorg.conf.

Kristian

Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> This is the other bug we talked about today but didn't have in bugzilla 
> yet.
> 
>     -alan-
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [Bug 1072]  New: "keyboard" driver should just load "kbd" if 
> USE_DEPRECATED_KEYBOARD_DRIVER is false
> Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 10:15:56 -0700 (PDT)
> From: [email protected]
> To: Alan.Coopersmith-UdXhSnd/[email protected]
> 
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> https://freedesktop.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1072
> 
>            Summary: "keyboard" driver should just load "kbd" if
>                     USE_DEPRECATED_KEYBOARD_DRIVER is false
>            Product: xorg
>            Version: CVS_head
>           Platform: All
>         OS/Version: All
>             Status: NEW
>           Severity: blocker
>           Priority: P2
>          Component: Input/Keyboard
>         AssignedTo: [email protected]
>         ReportedBy: [email protected]
> OtherBugsDependingO 351
>              nThis:
> 
> 
> Many people have existing xorg.conf & XF86config files that specify use 
> of the
> "keyboard" driver.  If they upgrade to the current release on a platform 
> with
> the deprecated driver disabled, the server refuses to start, instead 
> printing
> an error message:
> *** ERROR the legacy keyboard driver "keyboard" is deprecated
> *** and has not been compiled into this X server.  It will be removed
> *** in the next release of the Xorg server.
> *** Please consider using the the new "kbd" driver for "Keyboard0".
> 
> xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/common/xf86Init.c should be changed so that
> the message is only a warning, not a fatal error, and the server should 
> simply
> load kbd instead for the given device.
> 
> 
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