Bug 88215

Summary:	Move the libinput driver into the server
Product:	xorg	Reporter:	drago01
Component:	Input/libinput	Assignee:	Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium	CC:	bugzilla, jwrdegoede, peter.hutterer
Version:	git
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description drago01 2015-01-08 23:00:22 UTC

See IRC discussion:

<drago01> whot: btw. did you think of moving the libinput driver into the server?
<drago01> whot: (same as done with modesetting) so that the server would "just work" without drivers on most (recent) hardware
<airlied> it would simplify server dev :)
<whot> drago01: good point, should do that
<whot> drago01: care to file a bug. assign it to me, just so it doesn't drop off my radar
<whot> s/./?/
<drago01> whot: sure
<whot> fwiw, can't do this until libinput is stable, otherwise mayhem

Comment 1 Peter Hutterer 2015-01-12 21:48:32 UTC

Server behaviour should then be to load libinput when a module that is requested by the config doesn't exist. This avoids broken configurations when evdev/synaptics are uninstalled but still have leftovers in the config.

Comment 2 Peter Hutterer 2016-08-12 01:31:01 UTC

closing. I'm not planning to move the libinput driver into the server in the foreseeable future but the commit below made libinput a default fallback driver. Which isn't the same, but close enough ;)


commit c69bd15e00aea2610834d05f63777f9bf20eca34
Author: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>
Date:   Wed Jun 1 14:38:54 2016 +1000

    Allow compile-time selection of a fallback input driver

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