[ubuntu-x] Update to xorg-server for proper bluetooth udev handling

Chase Douglas chase.douglas at canonical.com
Wed Sep 1 18:03:49 BST 2010


On Wed, 2010-09-01 at 12:46 -0400, Chase Douglas wrote:
> Hi Chris, Bryce,
> 
> The current udev code that parses USB IDs from udev is broken. It
> doesn't work for USB devices right now, and even if it was fixed up as
> is it would still be broken for bluetooth devices. This means I can't
> distinguish between my Apple Magic Trackpad and Bamboo Touch because:
> 
> 1. The Apple Magic Trackpad's product name is derived when you configure
> it in OS X. My trackpad's name in udev is "cndougla's trackpad".
> 
> 2. The USB ID of the trackpad would return the USB ID of my bluetooth
> receiver instead of the ID of the trackpad, if the code were fixed up
> as-is.
> 
> I've pushed a patch upstream and Peter Hutterer has reviewed it. I think
> it will land in 1.9.1. I've added the patch to the Ubuntu xorg-server
> package and pushed the change to:
> 
> git://git.debian.org/users/corp186-guest/xorg-server.git
> ubuntu-fix-bt-udev
> 
> Please review the changes and upload the new package after beta freeze
> if all looks well. If you are interested in testing it out, I've pushed
> a test package to ppa:utouch-team/utouch.

I forgot to file a bug and reference it in the changelog. I've fixed
that up now.

Thanks,

-- Chase




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