Re: pkg/37671: x11/xf86-input-keyboard has function names clashes with xorg server

["Jeremy C. Reed" <reed%reedmedia.net@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/37671; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed%reedmedia.net@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/37671: x11/xf86-input-keyboard  has function names clashes
 with xorg server
Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2008 18:55:30 -0600 (CST)

 On Thu, 3 Jan 2008, Anthony Mallet wrote:
 
 > My patch is only a quick workaround for bsd. I don't know the right
 > solution, probably the (old?) function should be removed from xorg
 > itself.
 
 I just checked and both xf86OSKbdPreInit and KbdGetMapping have been 
 removed from xserver code (HEAD).  (That doesn't help with the official 
 releases like xorg-server-1.3.0.0 though.)
 
 > But it's only a matter of function name, not code. The name is
 > conflicting with xorg one's, which is dandling there probably since
 > pre-modularization. That's true for hurd, lnx, sco and sun also.
 > Probably no-one tried to change these functions in the kbd modular driver
 > since xorg modularization?
 
 
 
 
   Jeremy C. Reed