HAL doesn't work with grabbed or uinput created devices

[Richard Hughes]

On Tue, 2007-01-16 at 19:22 +0100, Michael Hanselmann wrote:
> Take a look in drivers/macintosh/mac_hid.c yourself. The code works,
> but
> is ugly. You can't do stuff like Mac OS X' Ctrl+Click for right click
> with it.
> 
> Kernel code shouldn't do such things at all. This is why I was told to
> write a userspace daemon after I submitted a kernel patch to do
> Key+Click for right click last May.

Is this the only use case for a new system daemon?

Richard.