This is very cool :-)
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> On 14 Nov 2018, at 20:37, Kurt Van Dijck <dev.kurt_AT_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
>
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