setting evdev properties from HAL?

[Peter Hutterer]

On Sat, Jul 04, 2009 at 02:32:09PM +0200, Simon Thum wrote:
> Asbjørn Sannes wrote:
> > But for "Evdev Axis Calibration" I have not found anything that works ..
> > 
> > Any hints and suggestions are welcome :)
> One could probably do a patch which adds property manipulation to
> config/hal, but it didn't surface yet.
> 
> I remember to have heard hal can be configured to invoke scripts like
> yours on device add/remove. Not sure of it, though.
 
I started that once but I'm being told HAL is on its way out so I decided
not to finish them. If you want to pick it up - be my guest, patches below.
Having said that, it is questionable whether they will go upstream if you do
finish them. There is quite a push away from HAL and adding new HAL-only
functionality is not the way to go. Especially for things like this that can
be set at runtime.

Time is possibly better spent investigating libudev and finding out how to
automatically port current fdi configurations so they work on a udev-only
system.

Cheers,
  Peter