This is very cool :-) Sent from my iPhone
> On 14 Nov 2018, at 20:37, Kurt Van Dijck <dev.k...@vandijck-laurijssen.be> > wrote: > >> On ma, 12 nov 2018 13:14:38 -0800, Michael Forney wrote: >> >> Xorg seems to work similarly, and you might be able to avoid libudev >> and retain hotplug support by writing a "netlink" config backend here: >> https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/tree/config > > Long ago, I wrote such handler, to remove udev and save 5 seconds boot > time for an embedded device. > I'm still using that now on my laptop, never had problems. > > https://github.com/kurt-vd/xorg-server/commit/a569b9972b7dfdbc1b2a53e161ec3e3bcb6195cf > > It comes with a helper program just to add/remove input devices with > options. That helper is called from any script you like, and you can > tune options for each device. > > https://gitlab.com/kvandijck/x11hotplug.git > > I found such approach superior over adding direct netlink support to > xorg, due to the ability to touch the options of each individual device > before it enters xorg. > I've seen the xorg syntax to modify device options using udev, what a > beast! > > Well, I can find my solution superior, I'm looking forward to your > comments, since you also want to drop udev. > > Kind regards, > Kurt >
