Re: evdev types

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

On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 06:40:25PM +1000, Brad Hards wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Apr 2002 18:26, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 06:19:29PM +1000, Brad Hards wrote:
> > > On Mon, 22 Apr 2002 17:22, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> > > > EVIOCGBUS? What's that?
> > >
> > > Beats me:
> > > $ grep EVIOCGBUS include/linux/input.h
> > > #define EVIOCGBUS               _IOR('E', 0x07, short[4])              
> > > /* get bus address */
> >
> > Humm, don't have it in my current version, sorry. Latest version
> > (without your patches still) attached. (Note the interface version isn't
> > changed yet in it, but that's a mistake).
> I'm looking at the 2.4.19-pre7 from Marcelo, which is what I guess most 
> developers are working on. The version in 2.4.19-pre7 is
> 
> $Id: input.h,v 1.34 2001/05/28 09:06:44 vojtech Exp $
> 
> There are a lot of changes to the version in 2.4.19-pre7. Are you feeding 
> changes to just CVS, CVS and 2.5 or CVS, 2.4 and 2.5? Is there plans to run a 
> backport later, or is 2.4 going to stagnate?

The plan is to do a partial backport later, right now the most recent
stuff is in the CVS, being fed into 2.5 from CVS gradually.

> I am just bringing up a box that I can afford to run a risky kernel on (like 
> 2.5.X-preY :), so I will soon be able to play with various combos of 2.4, 2.5 
> and 2.5+CVS.
> 
> I can maybe do some patches for the input system for 2.4 if you just need 
> grunt work.

It would be nice, if you could. I'm rather low on time right now (should
be better after a couple weeks), because of other projects (robotic cup,
wedding, ...).

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Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs