[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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