problems with HAL and input devices

[David Zeuthen]

On Thu, 2007-07-26 at 17:26 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-07-25 at 21:17 -0400, David Zeuthen wrote:
> > The kernel broke ABI, usually event%d was a child device of input%d,
> > e.g. like this
> 
> I think we also need the attached patch - it seems to fix it for me but
> stopping the prober being run for raw input devices.

Can you explain why this patch is needed? Thanks.

       David