Re: mousedev patch

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

On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 09:42:06AM -0700, James Simmons wrote:
> 
> > > This will be less acute when a single interface is available which
> > > provides applications with all available information (such as James's
> > > suggestion of an evdev mixer which adds a field giving the minor
> > > number of the evdev device correspending with the source).
> > 
> > Do we really need an evdev mixer? Isn't it easier to just try to open
> > and read all the evdev devices?
> 
> Actually the problem is hot plug. For the software at work I basically
> have a thread that runs so often to see if a new device is attached.
> This method really sucks. We really need away to know when a new device
> has attached. I remember you mentioned having something in proc for that. 
> Perhaps we should explore this path?

Yep. I'll try to create something today/tomorrow.

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Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs