Hi Przemo,

Thank you for keeping us informed. Don't forget to come back when you are
done over there.  We still need you to implement the "approved"
xf86-input-wacom guideline here.

Good luck.

Ping

2009/12/8 Przemysław Firszt <[email protected]>

> Dnia 2009-11-30, pon o godzinie 11:52 +1000, Peter Hutterer pisze:
> [..]
> > I think there's stuff missing in the server to support this. I'd like to
> see
> > it working at runtime but haven't yet found the time to actually find and
> > fix it.
> >
> > no driver supports real module unloading because we've never had the need
> > for it. Until rather recently, the drivers didn't even support device
> > removal because the devices were static anyway.
> [..]
> Last couple days I was digging really deep in server and glibc guts
> and ... the server was/is ready to unload modules. It's not exactly
> clean (duplicating modules instead of using just one, UnloadModule
> called from IMHO wrong place and so on), but it works. The problem is
> that looks like glibc (dlopen, dlclose functions) are "too" smart.
> Unloading wacom module and removing it from disk doesn't remove it from
> memory, so after installing new version of wacom and loading it again
> I'm getting the old one. I'm going to ask on glibc-help for ideas how to
> force real unloading. I tried to play with ldconfig - no luck.
> The problem is no longer related to wacom development, but I wanted to
> close the thread.
> --
> Przemo
>
>
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