Re: mousedev patch

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

On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 11:13:21AM -0700, Charles Duffy wrote:

> Being able to wake the mouse driver from more than one source (ie.
> separately for /proc/input/devices and /dev/input/eventX) will require
> a level of app restructuring in more than one case which I believe is
> unnecessary and will reduce driver availability without good cause.

Would there be a problem with

1) Opening and parsing /proc/input/devices.
1a) If no device is found either go to 1) if non-blocking is required
    or select() on /proc/input/devices and then go to 1)
2) Opening the correct /proc/input/eventX
3) Read the event data
4) If -ENODEV received go to 1)

We can't sanely mix all event sources into one, because there are
devices which generate lots of events and it'd be not a good idea in my
opinion to feed all of them to the app.


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Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs