[PATCH xorg-gtest 16/16] Add Device::GetDeviceNode() to return device node path from an evemu device

[Chase Douglas]

On 07/05/2012 04:41 PM, Peter Hutterer wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 05, 2012 at 02:19:33PM -0700, Chase Douglas wrote:
>> On 07/03/2012 11:03 PM, Peter Hutterer wrote:
>>> On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 11:40:25AM -0700, Chase Douglas wrote:
>>>> On 07/02/2012 11:44 PM, Peter Hutterer wrote:
>>>>> evemu doesn't export this information and even evemu-device just trawls
>>>>> through the file system to print this info. So do the same here, noting the
>>>>> time before evemu_create() and the ctime of the new device file. If the
>>>>> latter is later than the former and the device names match, we can assume
>>>>> this is our device.
>>>>
>>>> I just want to point out that it's a deficiency in uinput, not in
>>>> evemu, in case anyone had any thoughts of trying to fix evemu
>>>> instead.
>>>
>>> I did try. This could easily be part of evemu, running this exact same code
>>> right after the UI_DEV_CREATE call. Unfortunately evemu_create() takes a
>>> const struct so we can't save it easily without breaking ABI.
>>
>> Well, evemu could try to guess, just as this code does. What I meant
>> was more that uinput is deficient in that there's no way to be 100%
>> sure. That's the main reason why we didn't bother putting code like
>> this into evemu directly.
>
> the one advantage evemu has though is that it's in the best position
> to guess given that it just created the device and has easy access to all
> other information. plus, it wouldn't require duplicating the code across
> other projects.

Yeah, good point. Maybe I should just take the 
find_newest_device_node_with_name function in evemu-device.c and copy it 
into the library proper?

-- Chase