input devices and hotplugging

[Daniel Stone]

On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 10:52:47PM -0400, Dustin Spicuzza wrote:
> So.. I've been going though the code for evtouch and other input 
> devices, and I'm still not clear about how one would go about making 
> hotplugging work.
> 
> The only way I can think of fixing (a) is a nasty hack: have the driver 
> pretend to initialize anyways and wait for the device to come up, and 
> then do normal things when it actually comes up. Is there a better way 
> to accomplish this?
> 
> If I could somehow send DEVICE_ON and DEVICE_OFF signals to the driver 
> using udev, then I'm pretty sure I could solve (b). However, I'm not 
> sure how to send the signals (if thats the right term) to the driver... 
> though its probably also a hack, its a hack I could live with for 
> myself. :)
> 
> Any thoughts/suggestions/pointers are appreciated, thanks!

Hi,
Hotplugging isn't a driver concern, really.  If you have server 1.4, you
get hotplugging notifications via HAL, so you just need to hack the FDI
file to make it load evtouch and not evdev when you plug your tablet in.

Cheers,
Daniel
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