[PATCH evdev] Export device node as property.

Peter Korsgaard jacmet at sunsite.dk
Tue Feb 8 02:41:06 PST 2011


>>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Stone <daniel at fooishbar.org> writes:

 >> We expose a few features of the physical device through the X
 >> driver, but other information is available only through the kernel
 >> directly. There is no way of associating an input device with the X
 >> device it spawned off short of parsing the X.log.

 Daniel> To be honest, it's not really the sort of thing I want to
 Daniel> encourage; is there anything in particular missing from Xi 2.1?
 Daniel> Telling clients to just mix and match the two and hope they
 Daniel> haven't screwed up local vs.  remote, et al, sounds a tad
 Daniel> unfortunate.  Not to mention that they probably don't have
 Daniel> access to the devices.

Indeed. My points exactly.

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Bye, Peter Korsgaard


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