Re: evdev types

[Brad H. <bh...@bi...>]

On Tue, 23 Apr 2002 01:10, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 06:40:25PM +1000, Brad Hards wrote:
<snip>
> > 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, ...).
Congratulations!

I am working on the patches.

I am trying for the following breakdown:
Patch 1 - changes to 2.4.19-pre7 from CVS that are userspace visible (ie the 
evdev ioctl's). I am doing it without my changes (and some equivalent changes 
to the new "set global state" ioctls). I will send those when this set is 
accepted.

Patch 2 - changes to 2.4.19-pre7 from CVS to implement the revised modular 
system, including hotplug

Patch 3 - changes to 2.4.19-pre7 from CVS to implement /proc

Patch 4 - changes to 2.4.19-pre8 (or whatever patch the first three go into, 
plus 1 non-rc)  from CVS for FF.

Patch 5 - minor changes (Vojtech's email address, Suse deletion, etc)

Patch 6 (in 2.4.20-pre, probably) to provide structures for ioctl argp's, as 
appropriate, based on my prior set of patches.

Questions:
1. Johann - do you think the FF stuff is stable enough? I don't have any 
device to try it yet, so I think that maybe I have to defer Patch 4 to you.

2. I'm not planning to make patches for evbug, power or tsdev drivers into 2.4 
at this stage. Does this seem reasonable to developers? Also, I'm leaving out 
all the pm stuff - again, does this seem reasonable at this stage?

3. In input.c:input_call_hotplug(), there is a KERN_ERR that says:
"input.c: calling hotplug a hotplug agent defined\n"
is that supposed to be:
"input.c: calling hotplug without a hotplug agent defined\n" ?

4, The patches will likely be fairly large  (circa 2000 lines). Do developers 
want to see them posted to the list as well as sent to Vojtech for 
onforwarding to Marcelo?

Brad