Messages in this thread | | | From | Elias Naur <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Expose input device usages to userspace | Date | Tue, 14 Mar 2006 11:46:04 +0100 |
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On Tuesday 14 March 2006 09:22, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > > 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.
If by profile you mean a device usage like Mouse, Keyboard, Joystick etc. is your proposal covered by the bit field ioctl exposed by my patch? For example, a device can already expose itself as both a joystick and a mouse (see the hid-input.c changes from the patch).
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