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> > No, I don't think this is needed at all - users should be interested in > > what capabilities a particular device has, not what type it was assigned > > by soneone. > > I see your point that an application should not rely too much on device > usages. However, the main reason I want device usages is to help applications > and users identify and (visually) represent devices. For example, games could > show an appropriate icon graphic representing each active device. The event > interface already has a few other ioctls for this kind of information: ok then you should consider to do it the other way around: make a way of asking "are you matching THIS profile". rather than "what profile are you" that way devices can present multiple faces etc; which is going to be needed as more and more weird devices come into existence. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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