Bug 890

Summary:

Phase out legacy keyboard driver (driver "keyboard").

Product:

xorg

Reporter:

Kristian Høgsberg <krh>

Component:

Input/Keyboard

Assignee:

Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>

Status:

RESOLVED FIXED

QA Contact:

Severity:

enhancement

Priority:

high

CC:

ajax, brant

Version:

git

Hardware:

All

OS:

All

Whiteboard:

i915 platform:

i915 features:

Bug Depends on:

1068, 1176, 2181, 2587

Bug Blocks:

Attachments:

Description	Flags
Patch to deprecate old keyboard driver and disable compilation by default.	none
Patch to completely remove legacy keyboard driver.	none
Patch to remove legacy keyboard driver.	none

Description Kristian Høgsberg 2004-07-19 13:19:24 UTC

The legacy keyboard driver is implemented in various files in hw/xfree86/common,
which leaves a lot of OS-specific code in the common directory.  Also, the
keyboard driver is hardwired into the initialization sequence, giving a lot of
special cases.

A worthwhile cleanup, which will remove ~4300 lines of code from the X server.

The new keyboard driver "kbd" provides a feature equivalent replacement, which
is contained in hw/xfree86/input/keyboard plus os-specific parts.  It's not
currently supported on all platforms, but by marking it as deprecated in the
next release (6.7 + 1) and removing it in the release after that, should allow
those platforms to catch up.

Comment 1 Kristian Høgsberg 2004-07-19 13:24:08 UTC

Created attachment 492 [details] [review]
Patch to deprecate old keyboard driver and disable compilation  by default.

Comment 2 Kristian Høgsberg 2004-07-19 13:24:53 UTC

Created attachment 493 [details] [review]
Patch to completely remove legacy keyboard driver.

Comment 3 Kevin E. Martin 2004-08-06 12:15:41 UTC

Kristian, this was discussed on today's release wranglers call, and it was
decided that it was okay to apply the "depricate old keyboard driver and disable
compilation by default" patch.  Please go ahead.

Also, when you have applied the patch move this bug over to block the release
notes bug (#999).

Comment 4 Kristian Høgsberg 2004-08-08 14:44:55 UTC

Moving to doc-bug.

Comment 5 Adam Jackson 2005-03-26 19:06:10 UTC

can we close this one now?

Comment 6 Adam Jackson 2005-07-29 12:59:17 UTC

taking off the 7.0 radar, aim this one for 7.1.

Comment 7 Kristian Høgsberg 2006-07-21 12:44:56 UTC

Created attachment 6295 [details] [review]
Patch to remove legacy keyboard driver.

Here's an updated patch against git master as of today.

Comment 8 Daniel Stone 2006-07-21 13:33:54 UTC

committed to input-hotplug branch

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