inputd vs. hal

Johannes Berg johannes at sipsolutions.net
Mon Aug 14 00:09:20 PDT 2006


Michael Hanselmann wrote:
> That would work if it's acceptable that the original bus of a device (at
> least in the inputd case) is hidden. Any other solution would break
> existing code (for example, ANDing the bus with some flags or adding a
> new field to the input_device structure).
>   
Yeah, up to hal I guess? It's the main consumer of these things I take 
it. OTOH, virtual devices are hotpluggable by their very nature since 
they are never real devices, hence hal should be fine with BUS_VIRTUAL 
as well I think.

johannes


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