[PATCH evtest] Add evstate tool for evdev state querying

[Peter Hutterer]

On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 09:50:24AM -0700, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> On Wednesday, July 13, 2011 09:40:40 AM Daniel Drake wrote:
> > On 13 July 2011 00:12, Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer at who-t.net> wrote:
> > > I think I'd prefer it merged into evdev, simply because we have all
> > > the lookup tables there already. Which allows a state query for "Key
> > > Comma" instead of the numbers, making it a nicer interface IMO.
> > > 
> > > Ideally we could also make it parse KEY_FOO definitions, since those
> > > are the ones programmers see and are most familiar with (as opposed
> > > to the ones evtest currently uses).
> > 
> > Thanks, I will work on this.
> > What do you think about this design?
> > 
> > evtest /dev/input/event0
> > Works as before.
> > 
> > evtest --get-state sw --value 5
> > evtest --get-state sw --value SW_DOCK
> > evtest --get-state sw --name Dock
> > Get dock switch state. Return exit code 0 or 1 depending on state.
> > 
> 
> I'd drop the last one. We already have a number and a name, providing
> option for yet another name seems pointless. I'd probably converted
> evtest standard mode to print names matching to those in input.h.

I agree. Just changing evtest to print KEY_FOO instead of the current "Foo"
is probably the best long-term (easier to maintain, too).

Cheers,
  Peter