Re: event mixer patch

[Vojtech P. <vo...@su...>]

On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 06:17:35PM +0300, Matan Ziv-Av wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Jun 2001, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 08:26:45AM -0700, James Simmons wrote:
> > >
> > > > simple, really. open(fd,/proc/bus/usb/devices), select(fd). Select will
> > > > stop blocking once the file changes.
> > >
> > > That I got. How do you determine which device got attached ordetected?
> > 
> > You read the file contents, of course. You get a list of attached
> > devices, all with names and vendor/product IDs, possibly more. You
> > compare it to what you've read last time, the difference is devices that
> > connected/disconnected.
> 
> 
> What about non usb devices?
> Conncecting/disconnecting devices should be solved in the input/evdev
> layer, without relying on other subsystems. 

I was suggesting creating /proc/input/devices, working the same way as
the USB one does.

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Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs