HAL doesn't work with grabbed or uinput created devices

[Richard Hughes]

On Tue, 2007-01-16 at 13:06 +0100, Michael Hanselmann wrote:
> 
> Because sooner or later mac-hid will get dropped from the kernel, and
> therefore forcing users to use an userspace deamon like inputd (there
> seems to be at least one other, but its development deceased sometime
> last year), HAL needs to make sure it works correctly with grabbed
> devices and such ones created by uinput. We added a BUS_VIRTUAL
> constant
> in Linux 2.6.19, maybe it's of use here.

Maybe offtopic, but I thought the kernel was going to just send nice
keycodes rather than userspace routing buttons through HAL?

Richard.