HAL doesn't work with grabbed or uinput created devices

[Michael Hanselmann]

On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 06:17:52PM +0000, Richard Hughes wrote:
> > Input device -> Kernel (input.c) -> Kernel (evdev.c) ->
> >     inputd (userland) -> Kernel (uinput.c) -> Kernel (evdev.c) ->
> >         User application, X, HAL, whatever

> Crazy stuff - think about the cost of going kernel to user to kernel to
> user for each keypress. What about:

Actually, I was thinking about such things in the beginning, too.
Latency isn't a problem. Context switches might be, but in practice,
aren't. It's a compromise. You only type like 10 characters per second,
which is about nothing to a computer.

> input device -> kernel -> X -> application ?

Won't work for people not using X. gpm works with inputd, but wouldn't
with that way.

Greets,
Michael

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