Comment 7 for bug 546933

The driver functionality hasn't changed. I've tried the wacom rule and it works. Don't have a touchscreen but it would use evdev like it does now (evtouch doesn't have a udev hotplug rule atm).

Julien thought that this would not need an approval from the debian release team. We'll discuss what to do with the input ABI. WIth the inputclass backport it would be neither what's in 1.7 or what will be in 1.8, though it's only one function that was changed and only one known consumer (wacom).

I've sent an heads-up to the vbox guys, who recently did "something" to support the old udev method (asked for the 'dont-filter-tty-subsystem' patch to be added to debian).