Re: 'Phys:' field for keyboards (and other input devices)

[Brad M. <bmi...@xm...>]

> Right now i am putting together a system which (among other) uses
> a userspace mechanism to determine the vt which it should bind
> keyboards to. for conveniance i am useing the hotplug interface
> and consider extending hotplug to return vt numbers. 

i wrote an app a while ago that put up "press 0" and "press 1" etc on each head and used the result to map keyboards. (it was in conjunction with a failed attempt to patch the kernel for multihead)

i looked a bit and couldn't find the source, but you get the idea.

one problem is that two usb keyboards would come up in a random order and you'd have to do this at every boot and every time keyboards were plugged/unplugged. not fun. do usb keyboards have a serial number? (dreaming i'm sure)

brad