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SubjectRe: input system: EVIOCSABS(abs) ioctl disabled, why?
On Sat, Jul 31, 2004 at 04:31:34AM +0200, Kristian H??gsberg wrote:
> Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> >On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 03:41:28PM +0300, Olav Kongas wrote:
> >
> >
> >>When trying to feed calibration information to a touchscreen driver with
> >>the EVIOCSABS(abs) ioctl command, I noticed that this command is disabled
> >>in 2.6.7. Only after the modification given in the patch below it was
> >>possible to use this ioctl command.
> >>
> >>Why is the EVIOCSABS command disabled? I cannot imagine that nobody uses
> >
> >
> >It's a bug. I'll fix it.
>
> On a related note - shouldn't there also be a EVIOCSLED, or am I missing
> something obvious? How do you set keyboard LEDs?

You write() an LED event to the device. EVIOCSABS is intended for
modifying the absolute valuator range, not the value itself.

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Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs, SuSE CR
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