RE: [linux-usb-devel] Re: USB, HID, unexpected disappearances

[Franz S. <Fra...@la...>]

On Fri, 21 Jul 2000, Dunlap, Randy wrote:
> > >Linus isn't likely to move them without a patch file.
> >
> > I have done that last Friday, didn't show up yet until test5-pre3. My
> > immediate reason is that I would like to use the input layer for the
> > CONFIG_ADB stuff, even if CONFIG_USB is not set and moving the input
> > drivers in their own dir seems to be the cleanest solution.
>
> I'm using test5-pre3 and I don't see any such change.
> Or you just mean that it's not there yet (?).

It's not there yet :-(, but at least no reject yet :-). I'm quite blocked 
here, cause I don't want to change too much in the PPC kernel trees until 
this is in 2.4.0-test. I don't want to hack usb/Config.in and usb/Makefile 
just to have support for ADB input driver devices in a place where it doesn't 
belong.

> > Well, all links I followed so far point to there in the end,
> > and the input layer CVS is hosted there too.
>
> That's not a very convincing argument that input belongs
> to linux-console IMO.  And there's nothing at
> http://linuxconsole.sourceforge.net/ under Charter, Objectives,
> Deliverables about a generic input layer.

I think they just merged recently and the webpages are not updated yet. But 
honestly, I don't know for sure.

> I'm not fighting you for the input layer, but I would like
> it to be clear where it belongs, even if that's by itself.
> According to its web page, linux-console is about terminal
> emulation (I would argue: no joysticks, tablets, etc. here),
> multiple video cards, frame buffers, console scrolling, fonts,
> keymaps (aha, input!, but only keyboard), text modes, and Unicode.
>
> So is linux-console a client of the input layer or the provider
> of the input layer?

Hmm, maybe read http://www.suse.cz/development/input/ ?

Franz.