Re: Backported features from xserver 1.8

2010-03-28 Thread Timo Aaltonen
On Sun, 28 Mar 2010, Julien Cristau wrote: Hi Timo, There's one concern I expressed on IRC, which is that I don't much like shipping something as 1.7 which doesn't have the same ABI as 1.7 upstream. (And shipping with 1.8 is too late for lucid and quite a big jump even for squeeze at this poin

Re: Backported features from xserver 1.8

2010-03-28 Thread Julien Cristau
[dropping cross-post to ubuntu-x because it's subscriber-only] On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 18:23:04 +0200, Timo Aaltonen wrote: > > Hi! > > I've backported support for some features from xserver 1.8 to 1.7.6: > > - xorg.conf.d > - inputclass > - udev (the one we have is slightly different)

Re: Backported features from xserver 1.8

2010-03-25 Thread Timo Aaltonen
Ok, since this made the headlines on Phoronix I should probably correct some misconceptions and explain a bit more to the greater public. First of all, backporting xorg.conf.d/inputclass was discussed already in December when the support was merged upstream. I backported these then and tried

Re: Backported features from xserver 1.8

2010-03-24 Thread Timo Aaltonen
On Wed, 24 Mar 2010, Timo Aaltonen wrote: Hi! I've backported support for some features from xserver 1.8 to 1.7.6: - xorg.conf.d - inputclass - udev (the one we have is slightly different) - "various patches on top of these to fix some bugs or added features" and last, but not least