Re: Should FreeBSD 12 release have evdev support in GENERIC?

Johannes Lundberg <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.x11
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On Sat, Oct 6, 2018 at 5:07 AM Denis Polygalov <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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...
>

It would be nice if at least we could move it from compile time option to a
sysctl so it's easier to enable for all the people who want to use it.


> 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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