Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 31 Jul 2004 11:33:53 +0200 | From | Vojtech Pavlik <> | Subject | Re: input system: EVIOCSABS(abs) ioctl disabled, why? |
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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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