Thanks, applied and pushed. I added a man-page fix to this patch as well so the removal is documented.
Cheers, Peter On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 03:00:39PM +0100, Magnus Kessler wrote: > I would like to propose to remove the repeater functionality completely from > the synaptics touchpad driver. It is buggy in its current implementation > and its usefulness is questionable. > > According to the INSTALL file, the repeater is there only for testing. In > fact, if a supported device is found even a configured repeater fifo is > automatically disabled. For most users the functionality is therefore > irrelevant and can be confusing. If I understand the workings of the > repeater correctly, a developer could instead just read the data directly > from an unsupported device's character special file under /dev > or /dev/input. > > With today's more dynamic device configuration possibilities via udev and > hal it's also less likely that the synaptics driver would silently block > another devices data, this situation being for what the repeater > functionality seems to have been introduced in the past. > > Please review the attached patch and apply if appropriate. > > Best Regards, > > Magnus Kessler > _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg