problems with HAL and input devices

Danny Kukawka danny.kukawka at web.de
Thu Jul 26 17:56:31 PDT 2007


On Freitag, 27. Juli 2007, Richard Hughes wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-07-26 at 21:33 +0300, Daniel Stone wrote:
> > Hmm, this sounds like it's still going to be problematic.  Why do you
> > need to fail if it's not a switch?
>
> Because it's not, if you know what I mean.
>
> > Sounds like returning success if you either: a) detect it's not a
> > switch, or b) successfully set up the switch, is the way to go here.
>
> Yes, my patch is broken. Is there any documentation on:
>
> capabilities/abs
> capabilities/ff
> capabilities/led
> capabilities/rel
> capabilities/sw
> capabilities/ev
> capabilities/key
> capabilities/msc
> capabilities/snd

Not sure if there is any docu for this. I worked already on a patch to change 
the complete input device detection (but my last patch is some weeks old and 
work no longer), but this need some more time to finish and to read some 
kernel code. 

Danny



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