Re: X compiled for evdev?

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

On Sun, Jul 21, 2002 at 12:22:11PM -0700, James Gibson wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Jul 2002, Scot Wilcoxon wrote:
> > A long time ago, James Simmons generously inscribed:
> >  >> You can have multiple keyboards:
> >  >	o either they get merged and look like one keyboard
> >  >	o or, if you use the X Input extension, it appears as another
> >  > input device.
> > 
> > I just wanted to point out a need for input "filters".  It would be 
> > helpful to be able to redirect input from specific devices, or to filter 
> > input through a userland program.
> <snip> 

We have the uinput device, which allows the userspace to create a new
input device and feed it with synthetic events. I guess this is enough.

> *de-lurking*
> 
> Good thoughts. I sadly have not had a chance to test much of the progress 
> made on here in the last 6 months, but have avidly followed this group's 
> travails. I fell in love with the Input API when I started playing with 
> USB, and am glad to see it moving into the rest of the kernel.
> 
> A somewat unrelated question to the crew: I heard that a deadline has been
> placed for the 2.5 feature freeze (Oct mumble); What, in a nutshell, of
> the work you have been doing here is already inplace in the 2.5 tree? It's
> been a little hard to follow the messages about patches on here sometimes.

Almost everything at the moment is in 2.5. We're not going to miss the
freeze.

> Keep up the awesome work! It is much appreciated.

-- 
Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs